"I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many peopleâ€”who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselvesâ€”would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals."

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Source : Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.27, Hachette UK

Julia Serano

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“I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.”
“I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.45, London : R. Bentley
“I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.”
“I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.”
“A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.”

Source : Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1984). “The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species”, Gulf Publishing Company
“In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.”
“If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.”
“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.Â That causes an emotional contraction.Â When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you.Â The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

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