The Gay Girls Guide is exactly that, a guide for gay girls. It's about your life, your issues, your hang ups, cause they're mine too. It's written with girls who do girls (and those who want to) in mind and nobody else
18.aug.09
"The recent flury of articles on hip lesbians...isn't about documentation...it's about creation: building a better lesbian, one palatable enough for mainstream consumption...to gain legitimacy and be taken seriously in the 1990's, cultures outside the mainstream must prove they are free of the disruptive nature and threatening intent of activisms past" [Judith Schwartz, 1997]
17.aug.09
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history." [Sonia Johnson]
16.aug.09
"Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. " [Helen Keller]
14.aug.09
"The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.” [Amanda Bearse]
11.aug.09
"You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor made; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet - you've not got your niche in creation" [Radclyffe Hall, 1886-1943, British writer and poet, 'The Well of Lonliness']
07.aug.09
"Between the time of Sappho and the birth of Natalie Clifford Barney (between approx 613 BC and 1876) lies a 'lesbian silence' of 24 centuries" [Bertha Harris, 'Our Right To Love', 1978]
06.aug.09
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." [Helen Keller]
05.aug.09
"I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, 'Who's the dyke in the dress?'" [Karen Ripley]
03.aug.09
"But [s]he that dares not grasp the thorn, Should never crave the rose" [Anne Brontë, 1820-49, 'The Narrow Way']
02.aug.09
"Gentle ladies, you will remember till old age what we did together in our brilliant youth!" [Sappho, fl. c. 610-635 BCE, Greek poet]
31.jul.09
"I have no sense of guilt. I look upon myself as a prisoner of war. I am under no moral obligation to conform to, or in any way accept, the sentence imposed upon me" [Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858-1928, British suffragette, speech in court, April 1913]"
30.jul.09
"They say that lesbians hate men. Why would a lesbian hate a man? They don't have to fuck them!" [Rosanne]
29.jul.09
"There is nothing mixed up about a woman who loves women, who wants to have sex with them, or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that is mixed up because it punishes people for not conforming to its gender stereotypes." [ Edward Stein, editor of Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy ]
28.jul.09
"One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness." [Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964]
27.jul.09
"My lover asked me if I wanted children. I said I didn't know but we should keep trying" [Suzy Burger]
26.jul.09
"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women...no woman has excited passions among women more than I have." [Florence Nightingale (1820 to 1910)]
25.jul.09
"No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody" [Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982]
24.jul.09
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.” [Kate Clinton]
23.jul.09
"If male homosexuals are called 'gay' then female homosexuals should be called 'ecstatic'" [Roberts' Rules of Lesbian living by Shelly Roberts]
20.jul.09
"Lesbian is a label invented by the man to throw at any woman who dares to be his equal, who dares to challenge his perogatives...who dares to assert the primacy of her own needs" [Radicalesbians, 'The Woman-Identified Woman, 1970's]
17.jul.09
"Men often say, 'Women! Who could ever understand them?' Don't ask a lesbian for the answer. All you'll get is a sympathetic nod." [Joanne Brigden]
16.jul.09
"I have no doubt that lesbianism makes a woman virile and open to any sexual stimulation, and that she is more often than not a more adequate and lively partner in bed than a 'normal' woman" [Charlotte Wolff, 1904-86, 'Love Between Women']
14.jul.09
You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us. [Amanda Bearse]
13.jul.09"why should i paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier" [Marie Laurencin, 1885-1956, French painter]
12.jul.09
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. [Helen Keller]
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"My father warned me about men and booze...he never mentioned women and cocaine"
