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> [“After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman. Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/after-a-year-and-a-half-my-therapist-retired-so-i-was-bounced-to/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

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## More by Joan Nestle

> [“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/history-is-not-a-dead-thing-or-a-sure-thing-it-lived-with-our-choices/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a suitable form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/one-of-the-lessons-i-have-learned-in-trying-to-live-with-history-is/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [“After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman. Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/after-a-year-and-a-half-my-therapist-retired-so-i-was-bounced-to/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/i-cannot-understand-a-society-that-is-more-afraid-of-a-man-in-a-dress/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/to-live-without-history-is-to-live-like-an-infant-constantly-amazed/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/flamboyance-and-fortitude-femme-and-butch-not-poses-not-stereotypes/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [“We must stand together, realizing the complexity of our histories, both personal and social, choosing when we can tolerate each other’s company and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/we-must-stand-together-realizing-the-complexity-of-our-histories-both/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/as-a-woman-as-a-lesbian-as-a-jew-much-of-what-i-call-history-others/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

> [“My Lesbian history tells me that the vice squad is never our friend even when it is called in by women; that when police…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-nestle/my-lesbian-history-tells-me-that-the-vice-squad-is-never-our-friend/)

[Joan Nestle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-nestle/)

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