Press for Change - Campaigns to achieve equality for all transgendered people in the United Kingdom, through legislation and social change.
TransActive-UK - Umbrella organisation for transsexual people (transpeople) who wish to campaign for transsexual and transgender rights in the UK.
Guardian: Sex change victory after 30 years - Clare Dyer, legal correspondent. Transsexuals are to be given the right to change their birth certificates and marry in their adopted sex, after a 30-year legal battle.
Telegraph: Marriage for transsexuals - Joshua Rozenberg, legal editor. Raises legal issues with the government proposals to allow transsexuals to marry in an assumed gender and be able to obtain new birth certificates showing only their new name and sex.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Activism I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Activism
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Activism "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Activism
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Activism A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Activism
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Activism Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Activism
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Activism What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Activism
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Activism Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Activism
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Activism "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Activism
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Activism No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Activism
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Activism A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Activism
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Activism As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Activism
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Activism "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Activism
