Accepting Quote by Sidney Abbott

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

— Anonymous

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

— Michael Chabon

A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’…

— Rick Santorum

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

— Kate Millett

A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

— Nicole Brossard

“It should first be understood that lesbianism, like male homosexuality, is a category of behavior possible only in a sexist society characterized by rigid…

— Radicalesbians

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

“[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

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

— Audre Lorde

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

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through…

— Cheryl Clarke

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