TG Quotes

[Nicola D]

Does anyone know of any quotes that are TG related or may have significance to being TG.

Please keep them clean (remember forum rules apply) and please quote the source. If in the event you are unable to remember or know the source please give as much info as poss, you never know, someone might know the source.

For Example:
"The shapes we assume begin to dominate our thinking after a while"
Queen Of Sorcery, David Eddings

Let me know your favourite quotes.

[Kaity]

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau


"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly..."
Angelina Jolie


"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
Kurt Cobain


"It's better to be looked over, then overlooked."
Mae West

[Nicola D]

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal"
Henry Ford

[Jennifer Kielty]

Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.
Anonymous, O Magazine, The Shy Girl’s Guide to Sex, February 2003

[rachel]

shrink: how long have you wanted to be a woman?
me: since I was a little girl.

I cant belive it but i did actually say this at my first appointment!
got a laugh anyway.

[rachel]

"I wanna be a girl like you ,the way you swing your hips in jeans"
placebo

[fionatbabe]

All I ever done and all I ever said was a lie until now.
Fiona Geldard

[Sara Rae]

Not shure if this is TG but I like it
Life is a Lemon & I want my money back
Marvin Lee Aday

[Linzi]

"You think this is easy! I'll tell you it's Fu**ing hard! It's a curse and at the same time its a gift!...... I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy!"

Linzi Caroline Smirnoff..... Circa January 2007

[Kaity]

This thread needs reviving! (that isnt a quote btw, but, er, I guess it is now :confused:)


"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
Judy Garland

[jackiejones]

The older i grow,the more i listen to people who don't say much.
Germain G Glidden.


By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity-another mans's
Mark Twain.

You are free and that is why you are lost - frans Kafka.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular-Adlai Stevenson

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better - Albert Camus

I must throw in a few about the allmighty(no not Linda!):D but God:D

God will forgive me;that's his business -Heinrich Hein (1797-1856)

We must be greater than God.for we have to undo His injusticde-Jules Renard.

Even God cannot change the past -Agathon(447?-401 b.c)

God-but a word invoked to explain the world.

And a few on Religion:D

All religions must be tolorated....for...every man must get to heaven his own way.-Frederick the Great (1743-1826)

Religion is excellent stuffm for keeping common people quiet.-Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Science without religion is lame,religion without science is blind-Albert Einstein.

[Linzi]

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

Buddha.

Transcript between Denny Fitch and Capt Al Haynes of United flight 232 which Crashed at Sioux City in 1989. These guys flying skills manged to save quite a few lives from what was considered to be an unsurvivable crash


Fitch: I'll tell you what, we'll have a beer when this is all done.
Haynes: Well I don't drink, but I'll sure as hell have one.

and later:

Sioux City Approach: United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway.

Haynes: [laughter] Roger. [laughter] You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?

A more serious remark often quoted from Haynes was made when ATC asked the crew to make a left turn to keep them clear of the city:

Haynes: Whatever you do, keep us away from the city.

When interviewed later Haynes said "We were too busy [to be scared]. You must maintain your composure in the airplane or you will die. You learn that from your first day flying."

[Ellena]

I am a boy with girlie bits - Eddie Izzard

Ellena:)

[Clare Aston]

Blackadder - from 'Bells' episode:

Blackadder on Baldrick: "Kate he looks like what he is: a dungball in a dress.

Flasheart: "Thanks Bridesmaid. Like the beard. Gives me something to hang on to!"

[Kaity]

I am a boy with girlie bits - Eddie Izzard

Ellena:)

I've often wondered about this quote of his, does it mean he is IS (interSexed)?

[Jan]

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P.J. O'Rourke

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Françoise Sagan

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs
Patti Smith

Everyone dies but not everyone lives. Live your life in a way that makes you happy and proud. It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

There is no passion more powerful than transexual desire.
Rachel Pollock



Jan

[Reggie]

I hate to say it and be the bad fairy again, but there seem to be quite a few quotes in here that have nothing to do with Transgenderism. Please girls concentrate on what you are reading and saying. There is another thread for NON TG QUOTES. so please check.

I or Lynda could rearrange them but then we would probably be accused of over-moderation again.

[Lynda Collins]

I or Lynda could rearrange them but then we would probably be accused of over-moderation again.

I keeping quiet on this one,,,,,,, perhaps Regine we should wander of down the pub and leave the girls too it.... cannot we use discretion on this one.. mine's a pint of gin with ice.....

[Clare Aston]

I keeping quiet on this one,,,,,,, perhaps Regine we should wander of down the pub and leave the girls too it.... cannot we use discretion on this one.. mine's a pint of gin with ice.....

Hi Lynda! If you're about to seriously consider downing a pint of gin, we're not talking Mother's Ruin, we're talking Mum's Complete Annihilation (Psst - can i come to the wake!?)

[julieblack]

I kind of have my own saying that sometimes applies and its

at the end of the day no matter what life throws at me I am still me

not sure if its been said by anyone else


Julie

[Petra Susan]

Hello,

Just a few quotes that are on topic,

"Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this."
Mercedes Ruehl

"I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain."
Mercedes Ruehl

Not sure I fully believe the second one, I think it's far more than that.

"Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody."
Billie Jean King

"In biology, nature abhors a category"
Joan Roughgarden

"The Eternal female lead's us on"
Goethe

"Women don't suffer from penis envy, Men do"
Joseph Heller

"This Transition is precisely the transition of the rebirth from not exisiting to existing."
Johannes Climacus

"Transgenders are some of the bravest people I have ever met. They have dealt with their own demons and are faced with everyone else's demons, but still persist to be the best person they know how to be! "


"All people are born with two things, a soul and a body. Transgender's souls don't match their bodies but find the courage to make it work in the best ways they know how."

"I always do my best to respect the person a transgender believes themselves to be, because that is what I would want from them in return. I always use proper pronouns to validate the person their souls are."

Not sure of the last three sources

Janine

[Ellena]

I've often wondered about this quote of his, does it mean he is IS (interSexed)?

Bi gender or intersexual in physiology of the mind - not body anatomy, which is how I see myself

[Kaity]

Bi gender or intersexual in physiology of the mind - not body anatomy, which is how I see myself

I thought IS also referred to individuals with malformed or indiscernible genitals?

[Angela Burke]

"If at first you don't suceed, then parachute jumping's probably not the best option for you "- Me

"You're not going out dressed like that are you?" - My Dad

"Don't you think that skirt's a little short dear?" - My Mum

[Ellena]

I thought IS also referred to individuals with malformed or indiscernible genitals?

IS does, on assumption that gender is only defined by sexual organs. It is recognised that transition from female to male just after conception is full of problems which can go wrong which can lead to IS (of what as you say is thought ot be IS). I argued in Paris, that since in fact evidence suggests gender is defined not in body physic, but in brain physiology (hences TS indivuduals) then for those who feel feel both male and female within their brain, could be regard as IS as well. People like Eddie Izzard and myself can not be happy as one gender or other. Mood swings result in need to express one gender or the other. Eddie Izzard was referring to this in fuller text of the article which I took his quote. He has to be female at times, he has to be male at times, and sometimes a mix.

Since Sciences is long way from excepting TS argument that gender is in brain (mind) and not the body, they are even further away from addressing those individuals who are intersexual in the brain ( and not the body). In fact some IS from body anatomy, see themselves (in mind) as one distinct gender or the other - irrespective of body physiology. For example there was two IS one born with testes, the other ovaries. They grew up one male and one female, but male was one with ovaries, the female was one with testes. They did not feel as I or Eddie Izzard, as bi gender.

Does that make sense Kaity? - do query anything I say which does not - all the best Ellena:)

[Joanne]

People like Eddie Izzard and myself can not be happy as one gender or other. Mood swings result in need to express one gender or the other.

That's an immensely interesting point Ellena. I returned home after New Year with a chest infection, I've had them a number of times before and they always lay me low for many days. My first reaction was to revert to male mode and I have remained so for the last 5 days, which is a long time for me. I've been beating myself up over this, because I thought it was a step backwards. A good friend has helped me realise that this isn't an issue, but I found that point in your piece very illuminating and helped clear my fog a little.

Remind me to buy you a glass of wine when I see you again dear :)

Joanne