Why is it so difficult to see the lesbian--even when she is there, quite plainly, in front of us? In part because she has been "gh...osted"Mor made to seem invisible--by culture itself.... Once the lesbian has been defined as ghostly--the better to drain her of any sensual or moral authority--she can then be exorcised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew--as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Se...mitic society--the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... dealing with being a lesbian--and part of that is by being politically activist--has caused me to have a less carefree adolesc...ence. But I don't think that's a bad thing. It has its rewards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or ind...irect attack on the male right of access to women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news... False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me..., whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions--Politics, like Rock, Pop..., and Camp, has its uses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »