Afraid Quote by Audre Lorde

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies…

— Jean O'Leary

When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable…

— Camille Paglia

Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to…

— Abdellah Taia

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without…

— Ayn Rand

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn…

— Rose McGowan

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that…

— Alice Dreger

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

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

— Camille Paglia

“David Foster Wallace: I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it’s really scary to be alive and to…

— David Lipsky

Men fear most what they cannot see.

— Liam Neeson

“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and…

— Leslie Fiedler

“But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Eliot calls hollow men. People who fill up…

— Haruki Murakami