Customs Quote by Cheryl Clarke

Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male.…

— Marilyn Frye

“It should first be understood that lesbianism, like male homosexuality, is a category of behavior possible only in a sexist society characterized by rigid…

— Radicalesbians

“Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist…

— Henry Makow

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery,…

— Adrienne Rich

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

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

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who…

— Bell Hooks

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

— Bruce LaBruce

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

— Andrea Dworkin

“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