I really don't care how I am perceived by people on the outside.

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.

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.

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.

If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm...

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

All powerful is the rule of fashion.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.