Feminism Quote by Florence King

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

— Kate Millett

“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

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

— Alison Bechdel

“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

“The dykes versus the fags, but every straight man in the U.S who watched porn wanted to see two women getting off together. Lesbians…

— Jenna Hilary Sinclair

The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

— Nicole Brossard

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They…

— Jessica Valenti

“[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

Growing up in the 60s and 70s, there were no role models for lesbian women. It wasn't until many, many years later that some…

— Amanda Bearse

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early…

— Teresa de Lauretis

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

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist…

— Audre Lorde