Reimer Quotes & Sayings

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? — Lewis Carroll

Besides a fascinating story, the John/Joan/David Reimer case highlights several issues of prime importance about sex and gender that can be applied to questions surrounding sexual orientation. First, the body of evidence collected over several decades from adults who underwent unnecessary and wrong gender assignment and sex reassignment surgeries teaches us that trying to match gender to genitals should not be a standard. Gender and genitals do not necessarily align. Gender is an innate trait established within the fetal brain. Furthermore, the attempt to change what is natural and inborn in a person has devastating effects on lives. — Kathy Baldock

Another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. — Barack Obama

In reality, I did desperately need help. However, I couldn't accept help, because that would mean admitting that I had a problem. — Jacob Reimer

The movement toward estrangement - from each other, and from themselves - took place in far smaller, subtler steps. They were always becoming closer in the realm of doing - coordinating the ever-expanding routines, talking and texting more (and more efficiently), cleaning together the mess made by the children they made - and farther in feeling. Once, — Jonathan Safran Foer

...it takes more strength to allow yourself to be weak than to pretend that you are strong. — A.J. Reimer

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's — George R R Martin

If you want nothing to do with god then why do you say his name all the time — Emily Reimer

Holiness isn't a list of things to do or not do, though - it's a state of being. Holiness is what happens when the broken pieces of our hearts, the brokenness of our lives and the things we do to try to salve that brokenness, are continually turned over to God and left on the altar. The big Christianese word is sanctification. Sanctification is the hope of humanity. It's the golden ice-cream for the meal of grace. — Aaron Mark Reimer

Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy. — Everett Reimer

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault. — David Graeber

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. — Robert W. Welch Jr.

Perfect wisdom is silence. — Kenneth Reimer

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours. — Dennis Miller

I love being naked. I'm a free spirit. — Alessandra Torresani