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 »
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree... In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.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 »
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the sea...t of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »