Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative mental health effects on children, pregnant women and people living with mental illness.

Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person.

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor shelter without confinement and love without penalties.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.