Lillian Faderman

Quotes

• “Education continued to come under particularly strong fire...: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as me...”
• “Of course many of us were loaded with self-hate and wanted to change. How could it have been otherwise? All we heard and...”
• “A woman who dared to live as an overt homosexual in such unwelcoming times might well have an ego of impressive strength...”
• “Perhaps rage was an inextricable part of lesbian-feminism, because once these women analyzed the female's position in so...”
• “To learn of the existence of other lesbians through the media, no matter how unfortunate those characters were, must hav...”
• “Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others married because they coul...”