“My Lesbian history tells me that the vice squad is never our friend even when it is called in by women; that when police rid a neighborhood of 'undesirables,' the undesirables have also included street Lesbians; that I must find… — 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 glories and our sadnesses. It is at different times a lover, an enemy, a teacher, a prophet. It is always a collective memory as complicated and contradictory as people who lived it, but it is always… — Joan Nestle Copy Share
“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a suitable form of resistance. Our history is the chronicle of our vitality, our passion, our cunning, and at many times, our integrity. We must now work out a way by which we can honor both the old and… — Joan Nestle Copy Share
“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
