Refusant Quotes & Sayings

We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me? — Laverne Cox

Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one life. — Lee Smith

Ritically intervene in a way that challenges and changes. — Bell Hooks

Strength wasn't decided by what you could do, but by what you could do without. — Lindy Zart

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house. — Mary Leakey

I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a great master in the very science of human nature, which he pretends to explain, or very knowing in what is naturally satisfactory to the mind of man. — David Hume

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing. — Jamie Campbell Bower

We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride. — Conn Iggulden

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize ... Vienna waits for you. — Billy Joel

I wish drink did the trick, I really do. People in bars look like they're having a wonderful time, and people at parties laugh a lot more after drinking. But, like several other women in my family, I don't tolerate alcohol well, so marijuana is my inebriant of choice. — Catherine Hiller