Trans Quotes - Page 7

• I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Zoos, Thinking, Echoes

  Michel Houellebecq (2006). “The Possibility of an Island”, p.148, Vintage

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• Calling a trans person by their former name is referred to as "deadnaming" and is considered highly offensive to most trans people I know.

  Steven Petrow

  Names, People, Calling

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  People, Trying, Models

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled. I coaxed it into the center of the city. Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! A Trans Am pulled up next to me at a light. The Trans Am was filled with high school kids. One of them stuck his head out of the passenger-side window. "Hey lady," he said. "Sounds like you got a fartmobile." I flipped him an Italian goodwill gesture and pulled the ball cap low on my forehead. (Three to get Deadly)

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Block, School

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• Sorry about Bender," Lula said, letting the Trans Am idle at the curb. "Maybe we could tell Vinnie he died. We could say we were all set to bring Bender in, and he died. Bang. Dead as a doorknob." "Better yet, why don't we just go back and kill him," I said. I opened the door to leave, caught my toe in the floor mat, and fell out of the car, face first. I rolled onto my back and stared up at the stars. "I'm fine," I said to Lula. "Maybe I'll sleep here tonight.

  Janet Evanovich

  Stars, Sorry, Sleep

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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• With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

  Huston Smith

  Thinking, Errors, Mind

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• There's no question that frankly Hillary Clinton took positions that she never had before because of this political movement. If you look at her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she had previously repeatedly called the gold standard, she now says she's against it.

  Jonathan Tasini

  Political, Gold, Looks

  "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

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• A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are not the people who are necessarily going in for a custom suit. But that's one of the reasons why we were excited that we got to do a contest with HBO to sponsor a young person getting a suit made who might not have the means to do it on their own.

  Lena Dunham

  Teenager, Mean, Hbo

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.

  Ellen Page

  Gay, People, Lgbt

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother". Interview with John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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• Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!

  CeCe McDonald

  Struggle, Thinking, Everyday

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• Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

  Fernando Pessoa

  Morning, Stupidity, Zenith

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• The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

  Alex Sanchez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

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• I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

  Al Pacino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Vegetables, Years, People

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• Hillary Clinton has supported virtually every trade agreement that has been destroying our middle class. She supported NAFTA and she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization, another one of her husband's colossal mistakes and disasters. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership which will not only destroy our manufacturing, but it will make America subject to the rulings of foreign governments. And it's not going to happen.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Husband, Mistake

  Source: time.com

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• We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

  Laverne Cox

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• I've also followed through on my campaign promise and withdrawn America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership so that we can protect our economic freedom. And we are going to make trade deals, but we're going to do one-on-one, one-on-one. And if they misbehave, we terminate the deal. And then they'll come back, and we'll make a better deal. None of these big quagmire deals that are a disaster.

  Donald Trump

  America, Promise, Quagmire

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

  Naomi Wolf

  Believe, Issues, Constitution

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

  Kerry Washington

  Color, Ideas, Community

  Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

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• I've always thought about gender, as someone who has been categorically "gender nonconforming" for my entire life, I was forced to think about it, but obviously I became more conscious of it as a social issue as I've gotten older. And as I've met more folks who are genderqueer or trans, it's been really enlightening to hear their stories, and it got me thinking about my own gender history.

  Liz Prince

  Thinking, Issues, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Moving, Fall

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• Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Color, Justice

  "A Note on Visibility in the Wake of 6 Trans Women’s Murders in 2015". janetmock.com. February 16, 2015.

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• If you are a LGBTQ person, if you're going to travel somewhere, you do need to be mindful of where you're going, particularly depending on the country. That's just something unfortunately you need to think about. It's something you need to think about if you're a woman, it's something to think about particularly if you're a trans woman, and the problems a lot of trans people face when they're travelling.

  Ellen Page

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to sustaining the dynamism of our economies with the Trans-Pacific Partnership - the highest-standard trade agreement ever - which will support trade and innovation in both our countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Agreement, Support

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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