Janet Mock Quotes

I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me. At the same time, as a low-income trans girl of color, there were so many things that I didn't have access to. I didn't have access to a great education. I didn't have access to affordable healthcare.

Janet Mock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1983

Topics

EducationWomenGirlGreatTimeMe

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

Melissa Etheridge

ChemotherapyTestsSanityYour

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

Sondra Radvanovsky

WarmYouBodyMuscleUpLike

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

Tony Gilroy

EarlyCareerMoreThanMuchLater

Sexuality didn't come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won't have to think about.

Tom Daley

TimeSchoolPeopleThinkYouWill

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Mick Jagger

PeopleYouthSelfishYouWantLike

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

Lorna Luft

MeDoorEgoNeverOutAsking

I'm a little young for retirement.

Joni Mitchell

RetirementYoungLittle

I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.

Clive Cussler

BeginningWriteHistoricalGetThen

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Bruce Barton

GoodAloneLonelinessProgressMan

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

Anne Lamott

SmallForestMediaResultGossip

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

WorkTalentYouTouchHardUp

Software makes the world go round.

Thomas Peterffy

WorldGoSoftwareRoundMakes

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