Excellence Quote by Kate Millett

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

“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

Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only…

— Monique Wittig

Feminist...a nicer way of saying, lesbian.

— Nikhil Saluja

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

— Audre Lorde

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

When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes…

— Fay Weldon

I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.

— Martha Shelley

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

— Nicole Brossard

To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself…

— Bell Hooks

Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

— Nicole Brossard

For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an…

— Cheryl Clarke