"If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt. It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards."

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Source : "Andrea Jones, Tennessee Transgender Woman, Goes Topless In DMV Protest". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

Andrea Jones

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“Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?”
“The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.”
“I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.”
“Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.”
“Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.”
“Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies.”
“The English think soap is civilization.”
“From what I understand from talking with older friends and feminists, I think that once I enter the workforce and start to think about marriage and having children, my gender will probably eclipse my feminist identity in terms of marginalization. Discrimination in terms of hiring and in the workplace are still real according to statistics. I also think, as a feminist, figuring out what a relationship based on true and complete equality is will be a challenge. But hopefully by the time I'm dealing with those issues feminists will have made great progress in all of those areas.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

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