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.

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!"

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside.

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

Why does it raise eyebrows when a woman uses cuss words?

A good heart is a beautiful home where you can always find peace!

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.