144 Quotes by Janet Mock

"Movies have always been spaces of refuge for me. For a few harmonious hours, I could escape my reality of being a girl living on the margins."

"Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality."

"There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it's also a very visible one."

"Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing 'the most,' meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments: they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity."

"For so much of my life, I lived feeling as if, if I spoke, if I said something, I would lose everything. I would be pushed out. No one will want me. No one will love me. No one would want to be friends with me. It took me decades to get to a space of saying, 'This is my truth. This is who I am, and I don't care if you like me or you don't like me.'"

"We must have the audacity to turn up the frequency of our truths."

"We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences."

"I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell."

"If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them."

"Our differences are what make us great. Let us think about how we can extend this appreciation to people of color, undocumented immigrants, and other members of the community."