“For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.”
"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
"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."
- Chaz Bono
Determination
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Facing Fears
"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."
- Olivia Newton John
Facing Fears
"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort."
- Peter McWilliams
Facing Fears
"Limits, like fear, is often an illusion."
- Michael Jordan
Facing Fears
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Facing Fears