Ignor This: Just Lesbian quotes for I feel like it

[Natalie Nessus]

Ignore This: The Lesbian Thread

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women...no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Florence Nightingale

 

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~ Eleanor Roosevelt, in a letter to Lorena Hickok

Hick darling...I couldn't say je t'aime et je t'adore as I longed to do, but always remember I am saying it, that I go to sleep thinking of you.

 

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Two Nice Girls

We love men. We just don't want to see them naked.

 

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Mary McLane, The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself

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

 

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Audre Lorde

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.

 

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Rita mae Brown

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

Ruby?

 

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Colette, in a note to Natalie Barney

Natalie, my husband kisses your hands, and I the rest.

A favourite of mine but of course

 

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Amanda Bearse

You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.

 

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Colette, as quoted by Dolores Klaich in Woman Plus Woman

I was by chance spared the sight of Renée dying, then dead. She carried off with her more than one secret, and beneath her purple veil, Renée Vivien, the poet, led away--her throat encircled with moonstones, beryls, aquamarines, and other anemic gems--the immodest child, the excited little girl who taught me, with unembarrassed competence: "There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes."

 

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Marie Laurencin, artist

Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses?
Girls are so much prettier.

 

[sigh]

ignore this?

one thing i find i can almost never do is ignore you, nessus

thank you, this is wonderful (and now i'll continue to read in silence)

 

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Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," 1859

Golden head by gold head
Like two pigeons in one nest
Folded in each other's wings
They lay down in the curtained bed.

Cheek to cheek and breast to breast
Locked together in one nest.

Did you miss me?
Come and kiss me,
Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices,
Squeezed from goblin fruits for you,
Goblin pulp and goblin dew
Eat me, drink me, love; Laura, make much of me.

 

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Amy Lowell, "Decade," 1919

When you came, you were like red wine and honey
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

 

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Pierre Louys, "The Song of Bilitis," 1894

Then each declared herself vanquished and took her
friend by the ears like the two handles of a cup and
drank the kiss with bended head.

We filled my little bed, clasped close to each other,
When two girls go to bed together, sleep stays at the door.

 

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Diane Carley, "Pools of Heat

It wasn't just my body she excited, everything within me dripped at the hint of her touch.

 

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Karen Tulchinsky, "Latex & Lube"

'One more of whatever she's drinking,' I say. We drink our drinks and after a while I happily realize that she is trying to charm me just as much as I am trying to charm her.

 

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Diane Carley, "Pools of Heat"

I looked at her in the purple light of the fading day and felt a hand squeezing my heart.

 

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Helen Williams, "Anecdotes of a Convent" Vol 1, 1771

I therefore with tears entreated her to go to bed, She reply'd,
'Most willingly my soul, if you'll go with me...'

She cried out, My God! Holy Virgin!
What have you two girls been doing?

 

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Cheryl Clarke, 1981

"For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance"

 

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Fran Lebowitz

If you removed all of the homos and homo influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would be pretty much left with "Let’s Make a Deal."

 

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Karen Ripley

'I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, 'Who's the dyke in the dress?'

 

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Kat Howard

'When my mother found out I was gay she sent me to Juvenile Hall. That's smart. Sending me to live with five hundred girls who can't get out!'

 

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Judy Carter

'Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. 'I had a great time with...THEM.' Great! Now they don't think you're queer, just a big slut!'

 

[april-wine]

A place in my woman's arms
Where there is no hatred
No pain or worry
The safest place I have even known

 

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Coley Sohn

'My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. 'Everything was fine until you moved out there.' 'That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.'