Always Quote by Edmund White

And why is it "homophobic" for Senate Republicans to look askance at sex in public bathrooms? Is the Times claiming that sodomy in public…

— Ann Coulter

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying…

— Louisa May Alcott

“operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing.”

— Jeremy Scahill

“Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find and fulfil…

— Sri Chinmoy

We are called with a special calling, and we have a special mission to perform.

— Charles W. Penrose

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

— Edmund White

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted…

— Edmund White

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have…

— Edmund White

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness…

— Edmund White

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models.…

— Edmund White

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight…

— Edmund White