“Standing with freaks never hurt anyone - it’s when we agree that we deserve the oppression and the ridicule that accompanies the freak’s position in the culture - that’s when the wound is mortal.”

—  Kate Bornstein

Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (1995), p. 81

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