Jennifer Finney Boylan famous quotes

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At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight â€” and gay â€” people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.
-- Jennifer Finney Boylan

#Morning #Heart #Apology
I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor. When dear friends deal with me with mixed emotions, it is a little like being told, 'Well, Jenny, we're glad you got sprung, really, but quite honestly we did kind of like you better when you were in jail.
-- Jennifer Finney Boylan

#Years #Jail #Littles
When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.
-- Jennifer Finney Boylan

#Passion #Heart #Opportunity
What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.
-- Jennifer Finney Boylan

#Males #Hobbies #Female

Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big â€˜howeverâ€™- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choiceâ€¦and never understood the difference between the two.
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

Jennifer Finney Boylan famous quotes

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