#lesbia

Do most gay women love each other?” Doc asked. “A lot of them love closeted movie stars. ↗

— Sarah Schulman

#love

It was done the day you took me to that house in Bryanston Square, she said. Or even, the time before that, when you bought me tea. We stood in the sun, and you closed your eyes and I looked at your face...I think it was done then, Julia. ↗

— Sarah Waters

#love #love

When in a relationship, never ever commit when your very intention is to cheat. ↗

— Stef Harder

#break-ups #cheating #divorce #gay #girlfriend

Bientôt ou dans un cycle, ce sera de nouveau son tour de me prouver la qualité de son feu. Je ne lui manquerai pas, elle ne me manquera pas--et tout sera consumé. ↗

— Natalie Barney

#lesbian-erotica #lesbian-partners #love #marriage #love

Les générosites en amour se payent cher. ↗

— Natalie Barney

#lesbian-fiction #love #love

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black-poet #essayist #feminist #ny-laureate #teacher

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#bringing #brought #center #church #election

I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men. ↗

— Diamanda Galás

#god #lesbian #men #sexual #men

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lesbian #tomboy #men

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#friends #gay #hesitated #i #lesbian