From the Quotation File

[bcholmes]

I am watching me become a creature who cries a lot, a creature who must cry a lot, for it almost seems that pity is necessary before kindness is possible. And I know I have not come this far in life to become pitiful.

-- The Bridge Across Forever

I don't think the point is: Why are we different? Why have we refused to walk one of two narrow paths, but instead demanded the right to blaze our own? The question is not why we were unwilling to conform even when being beaten to the ground by ridicule and brutality.

The real burning question is: How did we ever find the courage?

-- Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue