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Top 10 Chelsey Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “The beauty of a new affair, I thought, is the illusion it affords you that everything you do is great. You each get to invent the other as the person you most want them to be, and yourself as the person they most want.”

1. “The beauty of a new affair, I thought, is the illusion it affords you that everything you do is great. You each get to invent the other as the person you most want them to be, and yourself as the person they most want.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “The name they gave you belongs to someone else, their invention of you; if you turn out not to be that person, you have to name yourself.”

2. “The name they gave you belongs to someone else, their invention of you; if you turn out not to be that person, you have to name yourself.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “I seldom even thought of myself as woman or girl, just person. Just human. I only became girl or woman when men walked into the room or I walked into theirs, when that gaze hit me like a hot breath. As a woman you walked in and we’re assessed, ignored, or both.”

3. “I seldom even thought of myself as woman or girl, just person. Just human. I only became girl or woman when men walked into the room or I walked into theirs, when that gaze hit me like a hot breath. As a woman you walked in and we’re assessed, ignored, or both.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “Ryan offered me a seat on the nubby sofa, a slim, lightly scratched-up Danish modern with great bones. He’d traded it with a friend for a television.”

4. “Ryan offered me a seat on the nubby sofa, a slim, lightly scratched-up Danish modern with great bones. He’d traded it with a friend for a television.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “Of course I’ll be fine. I am fine.′ Fine was the loneliest place a person could be.”

5. “Of course I’ll be fine. I am fine.′ Fine was the loneliest place a person could be.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “I could have told her then, as we walked down Northwest Fifth toward the car. Or on the ride home. But what was the point? There were things even your closest friends didn’t need or want to know.”

6. “I could have told her then, as we walked down Northwest Fifth toward the car. Or on the ride home. But what was the point? There were things even your closest friends didn’t need or want to know.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “But then there was school and work and the doctor and the dentist and the Internet. There she was not a parent but a mom, a species held in somber, near-spirtual regard while for all practical purposes steadily crushed by the forces of public policy, like the American bison.”

7. “But then there was school and work and the doctor and the dentist and the Internet. There she was not a parent but a mom, a species held in somber, near-spirtual regard while for all practical purposes steadily crushed by the forces of public policy, like the American bison.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?”

8. “Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “Portland in the nineties was a lot like me: broke, struggling with employment, mostly white, mostly hopeful even though there was no real change in sight. For all the drive-through espresso stands and downtown restoration, the new paint on aged bungalows and vintage glasses on young women, it was still an old industrial river town in a remote corner of the country. Hard to get to. Hard to leave.”

9. “Portland in the nineties was a lot like me: broke, struggling with employment, mostly white, mostly hopeful even though there was no real change in sight. For all the drive-through espresso stands and downtown restoration, the new paint on aged bungalows and vintage glasses on young women, it was still an old industrial river town in a remote corner of the country. Hard to get to. Hard to leave.”

— Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson Quote: “It’s the gays who say, We are everywhere, but straightness really was everywhere. The world was sodden with it. Versions of the relationship I was now in played out in everything ever written, acted, sung, sold, declared. The abundance of representation dizzied me. There was so much written and sold about the love and trouble between men and women that if you lined it all up end to end the whole world would be wrapped as thickly and totally as a rubberband ball.”

10. “It’s the gays who say, We are everywhere, but straightness really was everywhere. The world was sodden with it. Versions of the relationship I was now in played out in everything ever written, acted, sung, sold, declared. The abundance of representation dizzied me. There was so much written and sold about the love and trouble between men and women that if you lined it all up end to end the whole world would be wrapped as thickly and totally as a rubberband ball.”

— Chelsey Johnson

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