"like every LGBTQIA+ child who has come out of the closet only to be thrown out of the house, I feel bereft. The South African church that was the mother of my faith has disowned me."

"For girls to flourish their voices must be heard, their choices honoured, and their right to bodily integrity affirmed."

"When girls flourish the whole world flourishes."

"The ability to be in public life has been enormously positive to our movement, to our people and being able to contribute has been very gratifying."

"And trying to work on ways of providing opportunity for low-income people – to educate themselves and to rise and achieve economic security for their families."

"I think that people who don’t remember when it was any other way may not understand how extraordinary this is. It’s my fond hope that we won’t be going back to the way it use to be (laughing). Or else people would get a rude reminder of an era that I hope is gone for good."

"Well, I loved being a County Supervisor, and I love the challenge to deal, locally, with the issues that are of greatest concern. I mean urban issues are my passion. Trying to make our cities work."

"it's like if you can be stuck with someone for three months every single hour, then you're unstoppable."

"It's been a war, but we've battled it together"

"I can't save the whole world"

"When you see yourself be brutalized so much, you become detached to the optimism behind life"

"The world needs me, but guess who needs me more? Myself"

"I felt as if I was failing my people, but I'm 21. I'm still learning to walk; I'm still learning to crawl; I'm still learning life. Why do I feel so guilty for living, you know"

"It's time for millennials to take over. Now, not in 10 years time. It's messy right now, imagine in 10 years time."

"The more vocal I am, the more I become known as more than just a model, more than just a scar, more than having a 36-year-old mother or 12 siblings"

"I see myself as someone I wish I saw when I was younger. As someone who has grown a lot and who grows everyday. I am my own hero."

"I was the only African female in my entire school. I began to think I must be ugly. I didn’t look like the next person. The next person didn’t look like me"

"I know I’m different, I know my facial features are different, but to me that’s beauty"

"Aweng Ade-Chuol: Life, Love & Lows,Written By: HANNAH NATHANSON"

"You know what? There’s so many more things to life than stressing out because the world just seems to have stopped."

"Sometimes I just want to shout at everyone: ‘Look at me, I’m not just a scar, I’m a human."

"My goal in life is to be the first female President of South Sudan"

"Hey guys, I’ve announced what happened to me, I guess things could be happening in your life, too, but I’m still learning. I need to manoeuvre around this thing I went through, so I don’t know how to help you but here’s some suggestions: therapy and self-acceptance"

"Before, it was like, mental health is important, but now, it is the most important thing. Where you’re at mentally is the most important foundation."

"I’ve learnt my worst sides, my best sides, my greatest sides… As soon as I discovered how far I can go with all three, it was about self-control: learn how to be within yourself and comfortable enough to control how far you take things"

"I attempted suicide two months ago today. And I just want to say, that I’m in a much better place. And no one had to know that – but it’s good to get it out of my chest. I feel well enough to. Especially today. I am thankful for life."

"The study and practice of medicine seems to me to be divided into two tolerably distinct branches,—Preventive and Curative; and whereas the second of these will, I think, be left by all wise people to those who, by years of study of books and , have mastered some at least of its difficulties, the former should, in my opinion, form an integral part of every system of education which has any pretension to completeness."

"... Whatever shortcomings or errors may be recorded against , it should ever be remembered in her favour that she took the initiative before all the world in opening a college career to women, and in welcoming, on equal terms, all students, of whatever race or hue. This double glory shall surely be hers in the memories of men when much on which she now prides herself more may be forgotten."

"... On Sunday morning the College-chapel is used by the whole community of , and the students may attend there or elsewhere as they please; but in the afternoon the service is specially designed for them, and their presence is required."

"The third College which gives instruction and academic degrees to both sexes is situated at , in Ohio, and being founded in 1852 by a sect calling themselves emphatically "Christians," was by the named , in allusion to Acts xi. 26. The characteristic feature distinguishing this College from the others already named, is the aim of its founders to establish it on a strictly unsectarian basis."

"It is a very comfortable faith to hold that "whatever is, is best," not only in the dispensations of Providence, but in the social order of daily life; but it is a faith which is perhaps best preserved by careful avoidance of too much inquiry into facts."

"... If we go back to primeval times, and try to imagine the first sickness or the first injury suffered by humanity, does one instinctively feel that it must have been the man's business to seek means of healing, to try the virtues of various herbs, or to apply such rude remedies as might occur to one unused to the strange spectacle of human suffering? I think that few would maintain that such ministration would come most naturally to the man and be instinctively avoided by the woman; indeed, I fancy that the presumption would be rather in the other direction. And what is such ministration but the germ of the future profession of medicine?"

"It is clear that in Great Britain at an early period women were commonly found among the irregular practitioners of Medicine; and it is equally clear that their male competitors greatly desired to deprive them of the right to practise."

"I’ll never find another love like this"

"Drinking just to taste her mouth"

"Why’d you wanna erase me, darling valentine?"

"You wanna leave a stain, like a relapse does"

"Lost love so strange"

"I wanna spend the entire year Just face down [...] And spend the rest of it asking myself ‘Is this who you are?’ And I don’t know It just feels gross"

"Baby when I’m 30 I’ll laugh about how dumb it felt Baby when I’m 30 I’ll laugh it out"

"I can’t keep anything down"

"We were just wanting to make something new, and fresh, and exciting, and healing that was going to be able to, you know, help heal our fans and help heal us because we were both going through situations that were mentally challenging. This was our place where we can let our superhero versions of ourselves shine and create the things we express and share with the world, which was our music."

"My work as an activist also involves a lot of media visibility, and it is not easy being visible. The first time I appeared in a national magazine, I had to spend an entire month avoiding calls or being alone in public."

"It is hard to talk about intersex activism in South Africa and not mention the ground breaking work of Sally Gross, a South African intersex activist and founder of the Intersex Society of South Africa."

"Access to healthcare is still difficult for the average South African, access to healthcare for an intersex person is even worse, there are only a few hospitals in the country that can cater for the needs of intersex persons with care and understanding."

"I became so abused by the doctors to a point whereby even when I got sick, and I was seriously sick, I could not go to the doctor. The only doctors I could go to were private medical doctors but those were expensive and I could not afford them. And I was so angry at myself that I could not go to a private doctor because I needed to get an operation. That’s what I thought in my head."

"I really struggled to get clarity from my parents about who I am and, you know, ‘where I come from."

"But the more I met other people like me the more I realized how privileged I am that I didn’t get an operation -- that, I’m thankful that I did not get an operation when I was born."

"Because people who did, they’re going through a very hard time at the moment because the surgeries have got very negative effects on them. So, I’m not ashamed of who I am anymore. I love myself. And I want to tell intersex people that you can’t expect people to love you if you don’t love yourself first, and to live your life because No Body Is Shameful"