This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.