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Citaten van lesbische en biseksuele vrouwen wereldwijd




Rita Mae Brown
Ik heb uiteindelijk ontdekt dat men alleen leeft om van het leven te genieten.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

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

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.


Martina Navratilova
Het moment van overwinning is veel te kort om daarvoor en voor niets anders te leven.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.





Diverse dames
I think, in a way, being a lesbian has been as much of a boost to my career than a negative influence because I had a very cohesive, ready-made audience.
[Alison Bechdel]

Het centrale thema van de roman is dat zij blij waren elkaar te zien.
[Gertrude Stein]

A woman who loves a woman is forever young.
[Anne Sexton]

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
[Susan Sontag]

Sweet Mother, I can't weave my web overcome with longing for a boy because of slender Aphrodite.
[Sappho]

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.
[Portia de Rossi]

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
[Kate Clinton]

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer".
[ Robin Tyler]

That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure.
[ Denise McCanles]

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another?
[Mary MacLane]

We live in the lesbian capital of London, we've even got a women's-only cemetery. It makes sense. There must be plenty of women who've spent their lives lying under men and don't want to be buried next to them.
[Kathy Lette]





Virginia Woolf
Als je over jezelf de waarheid niet vertelt, kun je dat ook niet over anderen.

De vrouwen hebben al deze eeuwen als spiegels gediend die de magische en verrukkelijke macht bezaten om de gedaante van de man dubbel levensgroot te weerspiegelen.