"According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be laughed at, I spent my younger years internalizing and fighting those stereotypes."

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Source : Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Janet Mock

#Pain Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Media Quotes

“Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.”

Source : Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.”
“For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.9, Penguin
“A little adversity can't hold me down.”
“Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desiresâ€”for food and sexâ€”is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.”

Source : Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.182, North Atlantic Books
“Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and weâ€™re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.”
“There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this, but my mom told me she came home one day and I had learned everything he had studied for a year, and I was playing it on the piano.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.”

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