Lesbian
Quotes - I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake
and ice cream
“I
seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“The
only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
―
Rita Mae Brown
“Cut
the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”
―
Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret
“The
single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you
by telling you what you've just told them.”
―
Rachel Maddow
“Girls
love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious
about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to
shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from
the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the
blood is just proof of how much. It's feral.
And
it's relentless.”
―
Leah Raeder, Black Iris
“Do
people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,'
Carol said, smiling, too.”
― Patricia
Highsmith, The Price of Salt
“Gay
kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual
kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books
they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book.
Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of
gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to
tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why
are we telling them that they’re a minority, and they don’t deserve the same
rights as straights, that they’re going to grow up in a world that despises
them, that the intolerance of humanity will never change, that they’re
worthless. It’s not true.”
―
Sarah Diemer
“I
am a rare species, not a stereotype.”
―
Ivan Coyote
“There’s
a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are
really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around
searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally
whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that
originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and
that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man
and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with
the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some
lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and
male.”
―
Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
“You
had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.”
―
Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story
“The
more you love, the more love you have to give. It's the only feeling we have
which is infinite...”
―
Christina Westover, Precipice
“I
don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians…
it’s
a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love…
a
man, a woman, what have you…
it’s
the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.”
― Al
Pacino, Al Pacino
“No
… because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyways, I think once
people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I
am not here to entertain straight people.”
―
Sarah Schulman
“I
have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered,
"unless it should be with you."
How
beautiful she looked in the moonlight!
Shy
and strange was the look with which she quickly hid her face in my neck and
hair, with tumultuous sighs, that seemed almost to sob, and pressed in mine a
hand that trembled.
Her
soft cheek was glowing against mine. "Darling, darling," she
murmured, "I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so."
I
started from her.
She
was gazing on me with eyes from which all fire, all meaning had flown, and a
face colorless and apathetic.
"Is
there a chill in the air, dear?" she said drowsily. "I almost shiver;
have I been dreaming? Let us come in. Come; come; come in.”
―
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
“But
the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever
sleeps with women.”
―
Audre Lorde
“No
one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores
blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled
with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our
animal passion rooted in the city.”
―
Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
“If
I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if
the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a
coming-out party without people thinking I just want attention. I wouldn't have
to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts. People
wouldn't say I'm 'just a slut' or 'faking it' or 'undecided' or 'confused.' I'm
not confused. I don't categorize people by who I'm allowed to like and who I'm
allowed to love. Love doesn't fit into boxes like that. It's blurry, slippery,
quantum. It's only limited by our perceptions and before we slap a label on it
and cram it into some category, everything is possible.”
―
Leah Raeder, Black Iris
“I
think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice
cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.”
―
Björk
“She
used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her
cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, “Dearest, your little heart is
wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength
and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.
In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you
shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you,
you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that
cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and
mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”
And
when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her
trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.”
―
Sheridan Le Fanu
“It's
a curious, wanting thing.”
―
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
“Together,
in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was
not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were,
you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive.”
―
Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story
