I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
— Caitlyn Jenner
Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
I was a dyslexic kid.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.
I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.
It's about working when nobody's watching.
I always thought everybody else was better than me.
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
I still have nightmares about taking tests.
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
I want to dress well. I want to look good.
I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.
I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.
If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.
I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.
I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.
My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
