Western civilization Quote by Terry Castle

“Woman-identified women, whether straight, bisexual, or lesbian rarely make garnering male approval a priority in our lives. This is why we threaten the patriarchy.…

— bell hooks

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

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

— Kate Millett

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

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

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

— Rita Mae Brown

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

— Charlotte Bunch

“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

It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the…

— Adrienne Rich

“Ella had considered this before, with amusement. But she is thinking: No. If they had thought us Lesbian it would have attracted them, they…

— Doris Lessing

“The hierarchy is disturbing. Women being enslaved to men. Women have fought against such treatment for hundreds of years and yet here—" "Yet here…

— Tiffany Reisz