Tjitske Jansen 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

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted. — Anne Lamott

Big breaks come from small fractures. — John Kapelos

Little Lion Street was presumably named after an incident hundreds of years ago which concerned something little and almost certainly involved a street but, Rhys felt, had in no way included a lion. — Kate Griffin

When I felt ill and was on the way to becoming a burden to the other men, I noticed a growing chill in their attitude toward me. For people like us, living day and night on the brink of danger, the normal instinct of survival seems to strike inward, like a disease, distorting the personality and removing all motives other than those of sheer self-interest. That is why this afternoon I did not wait to go and tell my former comrades-in-arms what had happened to me. For one thing, they probably already knew; besides, it seemed unfair to risk awakening their dormant sense of humanity. — Shohei Ooka

How so much information is stored on this planet?? — Deyth Banger

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. — Georges Braque

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind. — Nicolas Chamfort

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. — Ray Bradbury

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am. — Ann-Margret