"I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover."

-- Brenda Fricker

#Pain Quotes #Hockey Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“You get into feeling like you are in a zone. You can't be stopped. It's a good feeling but it never lasts.”
“The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.”
“You were born original don't die a copy”
“Fitness - Focus - Form.”
“All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination.”

Source : Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.132, Seal Press
“It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.”
“I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.”
“It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.”

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