“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 we cannot. We must never pretend to be experts on each other’s lives, never belittle the… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a suitable form… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“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… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform. — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world. — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“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… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“My Lesbian history tells me that the vice squad is never our friend even when it is called in by women; that when police… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
