A Quote by Kathy Acker

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 a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.

Kathy Acker

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Been Deep Deep Within Direct Goal Halls Made Male Own Prefer Pursuing Sensuality Separated Small Small World Ways Within Women World

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Kathy Acker
American - Novelist
April 18, 1947 - November 30, 1997

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Tee Corinne

One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.

Camille Paglia

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Alice Walker

I think that older lesbians definitely didn't take care of themselves. They didn't exercise. But the younger lesbians, they're very different. They go to the gym. They manage their eating. They're much more fashion-conscious.

Jackie Warner

Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.

Monique Wittig

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Michael Kimmel

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

Angela Duckworth

When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.

Camille Paglia

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

Audre Lorde

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Seth Rogen

People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.

Jack Antonoff

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

Alison Bechdel

If lesbians were purple, none would be admitted to respected places. But if all lesbians suddenly turned purple today, society would be surprised at the number of purple people in high places.

Sidney Abbott

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

Rush Limbaugh

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Jackie Warner

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