Breaths Quote by Nicole Brossard

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the…

— Audre Lorde

The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind,…

— Janice Raymond

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made…

— Kathy Acker

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

— Kate Millett

Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently,…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

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

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

Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men…

— Florence King

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

Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

— Nicole Brossard

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

— Nicole Brossard

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

— Rita Mae Brown