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Quotes

"Heterosexuality is not normal,
it's just common."

Dorothy Parker

“I love the morning . . . the beginning of a brand new day. Because even things that we know are unattainable flutter within our grasp. In the early morning—at that cusp of a new day— everything is possible.”

Gerri Hill

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realise's an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

Virginia Woolf

"When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find we're still unfulfilled we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on, a series polygamy until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we each of us are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure of every relationship we enter."

Tom Robbins

"But after all, one can not at 62 look back down the corridor of one's life and not have some doubts about the journey one has made, the doors which one opened are now all closed. The doors one did not dare open remain shut, the corridor is dark, only ahead is lighter, so one turns and proceeds in that direction, to go back is madness to go left or right at this stage is both exhausting and dangerous."

Dirk Bogarde

"Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me--so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins."

Audre Lorde

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

Mary MacLaine

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

Rita Mae Brown

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks"

Natalie Clifford Barney

'When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze.'

Natalie Clifford Barney

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis"

Quentin Crisp

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

Martina Navratilova

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

Harvey Fierstein

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful"

Armistead Maupin

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb, it's where all the fruit is"

Shirley Maclaine

"Life can be as easy as a fall, if you just let go"

Shirley Maclaine

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality"

Yoko Ono