Kate Bornstein (1948) American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity (2013), p. 6
“We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.”
— Margaret Atwood, book The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
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