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> [There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audre-lorde/there-are-lesbians-god-knows-if-you-came-up-through-lesbian-circles/)

[Audre Lorde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audre-lorde/)

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> [Were there open gays and lesbians before the West started influencing Russia? No, there weren't. In fact, the most out person in the country, until recently, was me. I turned gay in America. I was a nice Soviet fourteen-year-old when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/were-there-open-gays-and-lesbians-before-the-west-started-influencing/)

[Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/)

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