“Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.”
"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."
- Chaz Bono
Awareness
"There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate."
- Chaz Bono
Awareness
"We are all a mosaic of possibility, made up of both light and shadow."
- Chaz Bono
Self-awareness
"I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body."
- Chaz Bono
Adversity
"A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family."
- Chaz Bono
Family
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination