Lesbian Quotes

"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."

Jeanette Winterson

"Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl."

Julie Anne Peters

"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

Rita Mae Brown

"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

"You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time."

Cristina Marrero

"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

"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

"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

"Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man."

Cristina Marrero

"I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men."

Diamanda Galás

"For the first time in my life, I said the words, “I need a drink."

Cristina Marrero

"It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege."

Cassandra Duffy

"Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature…."

Sappho

"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."

Cristina Marrero

"If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship."

Cristina Marrero

"Hey roomie." I was breathless. I looked her straight in the eyes as my fingers squeezed my nipples and rubbed my swollen clit. "Told you I wouldn't stop when you caught me."

Samantha Whitney

"You asked of me once, how high, high can beor if there was an exhibit..I smiled and then whispered..My thighs are the limit…"

Shanica Stewart, The Nikki DaVinci Code

"Heather leaned toward me and placed a soothing hand on my knee. “It’ll be fine, sweetie. You’ll see.”“I’ve never done anything like this. What if I can’t go through with it? I’ll feel like such a dolt.”“I won’t let that happen. Once I get you warmed up, you’ll forget all these silly insecurities. And I’d bet my favorite dildo that the instant you see Blake in the buff, you’ll be damn glad you followed through on this little plan."

Anne Rainey, Burn

"It is no wonder lesbians love women."

Gilbert Sorrentino, The Moon in Its Flight

"When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Story Content Warning: There will be angst, sex, a little rough language and rampant lesbianism. If this is not your cup of tea, don't drink it. If you are not old enough to read this, you will be soon. It might be in your best interest to wait until you are older. If you live in a place where this is not legal... why are you still living there? Maybe it's time for you to move on."

BadSquirrel

"Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian."

Kate Aaron, Four Chances: A Short Story Quartet

"I’m twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I’m the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all."

H.J. Bellus, The Big O

"Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage."

DaShanne Stokes

"We have a saying in the desert: It is better to see the truth, than to imagine it."

Amber Jacobs

"The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.''Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation."

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice on the Outside

"Valérie: "You know, you don't need to be a lesbian to be a feminist. Nor do you need short hair to be a lesbian. Or a feminist.""Yes, but helps, doesd't it?" Astrid counters"

Clémentine Beauvais, Les petites Reines

"Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law."

DaShanne Stokes

"Love should never mean having to live in fear."

DaShanne Stokes

"I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic."

Darnell Lamont Walker

"Weight gains aren't failures – they're learning curves."

Rachel Stevenson, Reshaping Rachel

"In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant."

Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

"I think I need to take frequent breaks from kissing your body to return to your lips, kissing you feels so good."

J.Y. Tacheva, How We Fall in Love: The Tale Scheherazade Didn't Tell

"I'd take off your clothes, fast enough to not give you time to reconsider, but gently, while kissing your lips."

J.Y. Tacheva, How We Fall in Love: The Tale Scheherazade Didn't Tell

"You can give life and take it away just as easily. You’re my blessing and my curse."

J.Y. Tacheva, How We Fall in Love: The Tale Scheherazade Didn't Tell

"The power of love is that it sees all people."

DaShanne Stokes

"The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?"

DaShanne Stokes

"People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most."

DaShanne Stokes

"What does love mean if we would deny it to others?"

DaShanne Stokes

"Tell me you'll never lie to me again, and I'll go with you."

Pat Shand, Destiny, NY, Volume One: Who I Used to Be

"[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature."

Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο σκοτάδι

"She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free..."

Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life."

Beth Cohen

"Do you want me to lick you again?"

Alyssa Brugman, Alex As Well

"Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."

Graham Greene, Orient Express

"Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others married because they could see no other viable choice in the day."

Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

"I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know.."

Charles Bukowski

"Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out."

DaShanne Stokes

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