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Top 15 Ivan E. Coyote Quotes (2025 Update)

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”

1. “I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.”

2. “I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “Some of us have hard roads, but the Lord never gives anyone a burden without also giving them a gift. Your job is to find out what that gift is and use it, y’hear me? God doesn’t make mistakes. Never forget that. You are exactly who God meant you to be.”

3. “Some of us have hard roads, but the Lord never gives anyone a burden without also giving them a gift. Your job is to find out what that gift is and use it, y’hear me? God doesn’t make mistakes. Never forget that. You are exactly who God meant you to be.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “I am not trapped in the wrong body; I am trapped in a world that makes very little space for bodies like mine.”

4. “I am not trapped in the wrong body; I am trapped in a world that makes very little space for bodies like mine.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don’t know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.”

5. “I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don’t know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “Any knowledge of homosexuality I might have had would have gone back to Victorian times. All those novels. You probably skirted under my radar, because you weren’t wearing hoop skirts and high button boots.”

6. “Any knowledge of homosexuality I might have had would have gone back to Victorian times. All those novels. You probably skirted under my radar, because you weren’t wearing hoop skirts and high button boots.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “Thou shalt not let the world make you hard.”

7. “Thou shalt not let the world make you hard.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “You don’t have to look a certain way to be a tomboy. Don’t let anyone tell you that, ever, and please don’t find that here in my words. Tomboy thrums in your heart. It’s in your head. It’s what is holding your spine in place. It can’t be hidden by a haircut. It’s not about nail polish or not. It’s running right now in your veins. If it is in you, you already know. Tomboy blood is so much bigger than the outside of you.”

8. “You don’t have to look a certain way to be a tomboy. Don’t let anyone tell you that, ever, and please don’t find that here in my words. Tomboy thrums in your heart. It’s in your head. It’s what is holding your spine in place. It can’t be hidden by a haircut. It’s not about nail polish or not. It’s running right now in your veins. If it is in you, you already know. Tomboy blood is so much bigger than the outside of you.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “I rarely bring a date along to family functions, because more than two or three of us in one room can be hazardous, especially if you are shy, offend easily, clean and sober, or don’t eat meat. The way my family demonstrates our love and affection for each other has occasionally been mistaken for verbal abuse by outsiders, so I usually don’t take the risk.”

9. “I rarely bring a date along to family functions, because more than two or three of us in one room can be hazardous, especially if you are shy, offend easily, clean and sober, or don’t eat meat. The way my family demonstrates our love and affection for each other has occasionally been mistaken for verbal abuse by outsiders, so I usually don’t take the risk.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “It is true what they say: without an audience, a storyteller is just some guy talking to himself.”

10. “It is true what they say: without an audience, a storyteller is just some guy talking to himself.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “That Ivan. They always were such a dreamer.”

11. “That Ivan. They always were such a dreamer.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “It’s strange, the things you miss. Me, I miss the way she used to wear her socks to bed and then pull them off with her toes. I would find them hidden in the sheets when I made the bed in the morning, crumpled into little black balls, covered in dog hair. It used to drive me nuts, but not anymore, in retrospect. Now it seems kind of adorable.”

12. “It’s strange, the things you miss. Me, I miss the way she used to wear her socks to bed and then pull them off with her toes. I would find them hidden in the sheets when I made the bed in the morning, crumpled into little black balls, covered in dog hair. It used to drive me nuts, but not anymore, in retrospect. Now it seems kind of adorable.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “Please rate the strength of your feelings from one to five, one meaning you feel not very strongly about it all, to five meaning you have very strong feelings about me getting top surgery. Now, please fold up your answers and put them in your pocket. Please keep them to yourself, as I will try to do with my feelings about your breasts. Thank you so much for participating.”

13. “Please rate the strength of your feelings from one to five, one meaning you feel not very strongly about it all, to five meaning you have very strong feelings about me getting top surgery. Now, please fold up your answers and put them in your pocket. Please keep them to yourself, as I will try to do with my feelings about your breasts. Thank you so much for participating.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through.”

14. “If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote Quote: “It’s a terrifying thing, the pain of a stranger. Impossible to bear it all, even on a strong day, even when the sun is shining and my back doesn’t hurt and the dishes are all done.”

15. “It’s a terrifying thing, the pain of a stranger. Impossible to bear it all, even on a strong day, even when the sun is shining and my back doesn’t hurt and the dishes are all done.”

— Ivan E. Coyote

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