Geena Rocero famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.
-- Geena Rocero

#Wish #Stories #World
Human dignity should be without borders.
-- Geena Rocero

#Borders #Dignity #Should
We should allow them to be who they are, because then we end up with healthy kids.
-- Geena Rocero

#Kids #Healthy #Ends
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?
-- Geena Rocero

#Inspiring #Names #Two
The world makes you something that youâ€™re not - but you know inside what you are.
-- Geena Rocero

#World
I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.
-- Geena Rocero

#Girl #Boys #Birth

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Geena Rocero famous quotes

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