"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."

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"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

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"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."

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"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."

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"We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay."

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"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."

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"I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall."

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"I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others."

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"The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear."

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"It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress."

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