Eye Quote by Leslea Newman

I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

— Laura Prepon

If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world…

— Leslie Feinberg

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate…

— Beth Ditto

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just…

— Amy Ray

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy,…

— Pamela Adlon

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes.…

— Cat Cora

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that…

— Chaz Bono

I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life,…

— Amber Hollibaugh

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was…

— Rupert Graves

I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt -…

— Dee Rees

When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and…

— Dee Rees

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

— Rita Mae Brown