"I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender."

-- Andrew Solomon

#College Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.”
“I look forward to proving something to myself and others.”
“Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?”
“This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.”
“What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.”

Source : "Kate Moss: Enduring Style". Interview with Madeline Rudin, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2014.
“I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.”
“Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.”
“The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.”

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