"Well, this should be interesting." 

- Tom Waddell 

"Transitioning is like walking on lily pads: you have to be careful with each step, or you're going to sink." 

- Dr. Marci Bowers 

"To be a feminist is to integrate an ideology of equality and female empowerment into the very fiber of life." - Rebecca Walker 

"There's nobody who is 100% straight, nobody who is 100% queer."

- Kate Bornstein

"I do remember being a kid and seeing a documentary about someone that had a sex change and thinking to myself, 'Oh wow, that's possible. That's me. I want that for myself.' " 

- Isis King 

"I've never met any of the women I'm supposed to have had affairs with." 

- Sophie B. Hawkins

"I don't know what's going to happen in five years or ten years. I really don't know what's going to happen, but I don't think about that right now." 
- Amelia Maltepe 

“Clear the house of all the men. It’s time for the women to get on in!” 
- Claire Waldoff

"I'm very proud of what I've done for the [gay] community, and I'm also very proud of the fact that what I've done for the community is what I've done for all communities." 

- Joel Wachs 

"I think one of the best ways to combat homophobia and heterosexism is to use your own story as a tool for justice." 

- Mary Gonzalez

"I am allowed to determine what identity fits me best, and how I want to embody that identity." 

- Ruth Baldacchino 

"Using the internet as a tool of activism has been something I've done since I first started out as a teenager, so it feels very natural--but at the same time, I like to keep my private life private." 

- CN Lester

"Everything is in my suitcase. Seriously, it's my life." 

- Qween Amor 

"I am the first transgender woman to appear nude in American Playboy...I just wanted to be a girl, and then everything naturally happened! It is a real fairy tale." 

- Ines Rau 

"Love is boundary-less. If you can make me feel, if you can make me laugh--and that's hard--then I can be with you." 

- Angel Haze