Lesbian
Quotes – I want to stop living in fear
“It's
funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them
and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it
happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar
of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came
flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved
Idgie with all her heart.”
―
Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“Eros,
again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet,
sly, uncontrollable creature….”
―
Sappho
“Was
it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she
didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what
kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol
looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for
love and fitted all the descriptions.”
―
Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
“The
first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love.
Not with that person, but with the act itself. Such intimacy and accord. Even
with the awkwardness of first time lovers there was a grace and purity, carnal
and beautiful that I knew from that moment on I could never live without.”
―
Fiona Zedde, Bliss
“Nature
held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
―
Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
“I've
had more difficulty accepting myself as bisexual than I ever did accepting that
I was a lesbian. It felt traitorous. A few years ago, I admitted to myself that
I was still interested in men in more than a "Brad Pitt is slick hot
sexy" kind of way. But I worried what my friends, exes, and the Community
would think. I never even broached the subject with my parents. Because what
bothered me the most was that people would think that being a lesbian had been
a phase for me, when that was so very not the case. What I feared was that I
would no longer be part of a community, that I might be seen with my boyfriend
and not be recognized as something not the same.”
― R.
Gay
“God
doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in
the trash.
Jennifer
knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't
understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd
never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were
straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were
like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of
times and for the most stupid reasons.”
―
Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
“My
first female lover was a Jewish woman. She was butch, but not in a swaggering
macho way- she could pass as a yeshiva boy, pale and intense. Small, almost
fragile, she exuded a powerful sense of herself. She had not been to a
synagogue in years, but kept the law of kashrut, and taught me my first prayers
in Hebrew. She cooked, she read, she ironed her dress shirts and polished her
boots meticulously, and admired femme women enormously. She was also the first
person ever- including myself- to bring me to multiple orgasms. She taught me
to ask for what I wanted in bed, then encouraged me to expect it from her and
future lovers. She taught me to get her off with fingers, tongue, lips, sex
toys, and my voice. She showed me how to masturbate in different positions, and
fisted me during my menstrual cramps to provide an internal massage- and to
demonstrate that a sexual act without orgasm was also an acceptable, intimate
act. She never separated sexuality from the rest of her life; it was as
integral to her as her Judaism.
This
was how I wanted to be. Not just sexually, although certainly that way too.
This is how I wanted to move through the world.
--
Karen Taylor (from "Daughters of Zelophehad") ”
―
Lawrence Schimel, First Person Queer: Who We Are
“So,
let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being
attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you
are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no
longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is
made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be
made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a
lie in order to placate you, but isn’t the truth supposed to set me free? I
choose truth over lies any day of the week. ”
―
Cristina Marrero
“...the
man of my dreams is a girl.”
―
Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret
“Before
you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child
is listening.”
―
Mary Griffith
“Love
is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.”
―
Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story
“Dan:
'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.'
Ellen:
'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.”
―
Ellen DeGeneres
“And
she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this
could not have been more right or perfect.”
―
Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
“I
think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed
by my sexual interest in men.”
―
Diamanda Galás
“It's
hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.”
―
Cassandra Duffy
“As
far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not
particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest
feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in
common between us.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“[Looking
like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort.
These are garments designed by gay men to attract heterosexual men. The
straight girl is simply the hanger for an inside joke.”
―
Mary Dugger
“All
I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break
from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts
life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to
break”
―
Catherine M. Wilsonson
“And
we loved ourselves anyway.”
―
Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Three
“For
the first time in my life, I said the words, “I need a drink.”
―
Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story
“What
do you want?
I
want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why
I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to
learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is
inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.”
―
Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
