"Once you know there are transsexuals, you see them everywhere. Short, pear-shaped men. Tall, knobby women. When you walk out of the waiting room of the North American Gender Identity Clinic, everyone looks peculiar. You flip through magazines and think, Hmmm, Leo DiCaprio? There’s something about him. And Jamie Lee Curtis? Look at those legs."

— Amy Bloom, “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”