Absence Quote by Audre Lorde

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

— Nicole Brossard

“It would be putting it mildly to say that the lesbian represents a threat to patriarchal protocol: Western civilization has for centuries been haunted…

— Terry Castle

It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the…

— Adrienne Rich

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the…

— Audre Lorde

“[E]ven today, when confident and self-affirmative lesbian identities have emerged and are available to women, images of 'lesbianism’ are still regularly appropriated by a…

— Nivedita Menon

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or…

— Adrienne Rich

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

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

— Charlotte Bunch

“To learn of the existence of other lesbians through the media, no matter how unfortunate those characters were, must have been reassuring to women…

— Lillian Faderman

Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

— Nicole Brossard

Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only…

— Monique Wittig

They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject…

— Laura Mulvey