Lesbian Quotes
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For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
Cheryl Clarke
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John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
Mary Cheney
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HIV/AIDS isn't a top priority for any of the three major LGBT groups in the U.S.: not the HRC, or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), or the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) - who together are somewhat pejoratively known as 'Gay Inc.'
Elizabeth Flock
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I was off to Yale to be a lesbian.
Judith Butler
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Speaking about same-sex marriage It’s about familiarity, and I think the only reason they’re uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven’t come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it’s about love-and that it is a civil right.
Jennifer Beals
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When I made 'Monster,' I didn't think about it being about a woman. I didn't think about that she was a lesbian. I was telling a story about a specific person who was tragic and looking for love in the world, and the more I could make her you, the more of a victory.
Patty Jenkins
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A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.
Nicole Brossard
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If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team.
Ann Coulter
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Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.
Dee Rees
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I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
Ed McBain
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I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.
Marti Noxon
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The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.
Jeremy Clarkson
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Ken Livingstone
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I love that we've chipped away at the celluloid closet and have wonderful programs that feature gay and lesbian characters in really rich, fully developed ways.
Busy Philipps
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My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.
Carol Leifer
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I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.
Amber Hollibaugh
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I could never be a lesbian because I have a really good sense of humor.
Bonnie McFarlane
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A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.
Nicole Brossard
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Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.
Cesar Romero
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Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
Harvey Fierstein
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My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
Portia de Rossi
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.
Jo Brand
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The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
Kathy Bates
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown