Dee Rees Quotes

I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible.

Dee Rees

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• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Explore

• I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Audience
  • Broken
  • Write

• My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hope

• I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • You
  • Down
  • Started

• It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Family
  • School
  • Values

• Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mind
  • Art
  • She

• I want to cry out to these young girls: Stop! Think! . . . For heaven's sake, don't fall down the rabbit hole of the lesbian scene. You will never escape, and your talent will wither on the vine. Your energy will be wasted and absorbed in repetition without progression. Women alone are Spenser's Bower of Bliss, enclosed, comfortable, and dangerous.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Stop

• No lesbian left behind.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Lesbian

• Did you read Holly Near's book? Let me save you the trouble. This is the most exciting sentence in the book: ...'I feel like a lesbian when I'm making love to a woman.' Gooooooooood, Holly! Well, the major difference between me and Holly Near is that I feel like a lesbian when I am BREATHING!

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Book
  • Lesbian

• Jo from The Facts of Life was such a lesbian. Wasn't she the biggest lesbian? I used to watch that show, like, 'Oh, she gonna fuck Blair!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Life
  • She
  • Lesbian

• I don't believe Hurricane Harvey is God's punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than 'climate change.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • God
  • Believe
  • Lesbian

• I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Hate
  • Purpose
  • Lesbian

• I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Music
  • Career
  • Song

• Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Black
  • Lesbian

• I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • People
  • Community
  • Gay

• I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Done
  • Art
  • Weird

• First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must 'once in his life' withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Up

• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Money

• I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Lesbian