Lillian Faderman

“Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others married because they could see no other viable…

— Lillian Faderman

“Perhaps rage was an inextricable part of lesbian-feminism, because once these women analyzed the female's position in society they realized they had…

— Lillian Faderman

“Love between women could take on a new shape in the late nineteenth century because the feminist movement succeeded both in opening…

— Lillian Faderman

“hey’d say that heterosexual women become feminists when they finally understand that society doesn’t allow them to be complete and free human…

— Lillian Faderman

“Of course many of us were loaded with self-hate and wanted to change. How could it have been otherwise? All we heard…

— Lillian Faderman

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

— Lillian Faderman

“A woman who dared to live as an overt homosexual in such unwelcoming times might well have an ego of impressive strength…

— Lillian Faderman

“Education continued to come under particularly strong fire...: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as men, if…

— Lillian Faderman