I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

I want people to see the truth.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute!

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

If you make a good family movie, then everybody in the family can relate to somebody, or in this case something. That's always enjoyable. There's always an important place for family movies.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

I took a lot from friends, but also me.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.