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I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.
Mercedes Ruehl

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I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.
Mercedes Ruehl

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Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.
Mercedes Ruehl

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Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.
Mercedes Ruehl

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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
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We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
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Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.
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