"All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds."

"My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat."

"I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls."

"I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."