Words matter. These are the best Zoey Tur Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We filed suit against YouTube before the Google purchase. At the time I went after YouTube, I thought it was a small company ripping off our copyrights.
I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.
I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.
I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn’t know what it was.
I tell the truth. That’s my training as a reporter.
Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.
Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.
I am not covering stories as a transgender reporter. I’m a reporter who is transgender. Otherwise, it would be like having a black reporter only cover stories about blacks or a Hispanic reporter covering stories about Hispanics.
Everything about the Kardashian family’s public image centers around shock and dysfunction – the very image the trans people are trying to shed.
I was told I shouldn’t transition, and if I did, I’d never work again. That really bothered me.
I know the way this city works. We have one of the most corrupt cities in the country. The reason it’s so corrupt is because everybody thinks it’s honest, and it’s not. You know the truth when you go to Chicago. The difference here in Los Angeles is you believe it’s honest – and that’s dangerous.
That’s violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.
I’m not loved by GLAAD or by HRC. I’m not going to be a spokesman for those groups, which are based on fundraising.
While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.
I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.
I’m not going to lie to people.
I’m so much more at ease now than when I was flying as Bob. Then, I was OCD about everything, always checking and looking for things. But flying as a female is effortless. I’m still checking traffic, instruments, and the radios, but it’s easier to multitask, and flying is fun.
If someone asks about sexual reassignment surgery, you are supposed to say, ‘Why are we talking about that?’ But I am a post-op transsexual. And I am a reporter. If you can explain and talk about it, you demystify it. And if you demystify it, it’s not an issue.
One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot – ditch the heels!
When you’re living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.
