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Top 20 Jennifer Finney Boylan Quotes (2025 Update)

Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don’t view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.”

1. “When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don’t view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Anybody can buy. It takes an artist to shop.”

2. “Anybody can buy. It takes an artist to shop.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “What transsexuality emphatically is not is a ‘lifestyle,’ any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.”

3. “What transsexuality emphatically is not is a ‘lifestyle,’ any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.”

4. “Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “There are times when I think it’s impossible to know another soul. I don’t know, maybe we’re lucky that way. If we knew what really went on inside other people’s private hearts it would make our eyeballs bleed.”

5. “There are times when I think it’s impossible to know another soul. I don’t know, maybe we’re lucky that way. If we knew what really went on inside other people’s private hearts it would make our eyeballs bleed.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Most of the time I just have to resign myself to the fact that this whole business is beyond comprehension for most straight people. If you’re not trans, you’re free from thinking about what gender you are in the same way that white people in America are generally free from having to think about what race they are.”

6. “Most of the time I just have to resign myself to the fact that this whole business is beyond comprehension for most straight people. If you’re not trans, you’re free from thinking about what gender you are in the same way that white people in America are generally free from having to think about what race they are.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “And at every moment as I lived my life, I countered this awareness with an exasperated companion thought, namely, Don’t be an idiot. You’re not a girl. Get over it. But I never got over it.”

7. “And at every moment as I lived my life, I countered this awareness with an exasperated companion thought, namely, Don’t be an idiot. You’re not a girl. Get over it. But I never got over it.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “As it turns out, we’re all still learning to be men, or women, all still learning to be ourselves. pg 197.”

8. “As it turns out, we’re all still learning to be men, or women, all still learning to be ourselves. pg 197.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “I think it’s very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.”

9. “I think it’s very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “It makes me wonder just how many supposedly brave people in the world are just men and women trying to imitate someone more courageous than themselves.”

10. “It makes me wonder just how many supposedly brave people in the world are just men and women trying to imitate someone more courageous than themselves.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become.”

11. “The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?”

12. “Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “It’s funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.”

13. “It’s funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “You carry the past with you. Even if there’s a before, and an after, in your life. It’s still the same life. The trick is to build a bridge between that and what comes later.”

14. “You carry the past with you. Even if there’s a before, and an after, in your life. It’s still the same life. The trick is to build a bridge between that and what comes later.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Having an opinion about transsexuality is about as useful as having and opinion on blindness. You can think whatever you like about it, but in the end, your friend it still blind and surely deserves to see.”

15. “Having an opinion about transsexuality is about as useful as having and opinion on blindness. You can think whatever you like about it, but in the end, your friend it still blind and surely deserves to see.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Sometimes my sister and I laugh so hard that we fall upon the floor, unable to speak or move, just shaking so hard that it is not clear if we are going to be able to survive our own happiness. It makes it hard to breathe.”

16. “Sometimes my sister and I laugh so hard that we fall upon the floor, unable to speak or move, just shaking so hard that it is not clear if we are going to be able to survive our own happiness. It makes it hard to breathe.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Don’t you know that this is the only reason we are here, to love one another, and to be loved? Why is it that what is so obvious to dogs is such a mystery to men and women?”

17. “Don’t you know that this is the only reason we are here, to love one another, and to be loved? Why is it that what is so obvious to dogs is such a mystery to men and women?”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Probably no people embrace change more enthusiastically, at least in theory, than Americans. Who we are at birth is less important to us than who we will become. We are expected – indeed, obligated – not just to be, but to become.”

18. “Probably no people embrace change more enthusiastically, at least in theory, than Americans. Who we are at birth is less important to us than who we will become. We are expected – indeed, obligated – not just to be, but to become.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “If I could imagine the past with compassion, why couldn’t I breathe hope into an imagined future?”

19. “If I could imagine the past with compassion, why couldn’t I breathe hope into an imagined future?”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “Is it? I thought. Is it really better if I talk about it? Isn’t keeping this hidden the only way I can protect you, can protect this family? Isn’t that my job, taking care of us? Sometimes you can do that better with silence than with words.”

20. “Is it? I thought. Is it really better if I talk about it? Isn’t keeping this hidden the only way I can protect you, can protect this family? Isn’t that my job, taking care of us? Sometimes you can do that better with silence than with words.”

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Quote: “If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance. And then, you need to talk to people who know more than you do, people who have not just thought about the facts but lived them.”

21. “If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance. And then, you need to talk to people who know more than you do, people who have not just thought about the facts but lived them.”

— Jennifer Finney Boylan

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