Joan Nestle Quotes

#1. I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier's uniform.

Joan Nestle

#2. Assuming a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Patrick Ness

#3. We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people loving us and by cultivating compassion for all humankind.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. Being eccentric is having a great desire to experiment without always being willing to spend much precious time thinking things through.

Eric Vance Walton

#5. Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.

Frederick Lenz

#6. After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman.
Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session. I guess it was the castration fantasy that pushed over the edge.

Joan Nestle

#7. And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.

Nina LaCour

#8. As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.

Joan Nestle

#9. Thank you! It's really cool to have a boyfriend who's a medical student."
Gideon grinned. "I swear that's the last time I ever vaccinate anyone. Patients are so ungrateful.

Kerstin Gier

#10. The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.

Joseph B.H. McMillan

#11. I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

Andrea Bocelli

#12. To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

Joan Nestle

#13. What differentiates the crimes of the Nazis from the others is their methodical organization, their administrative planning, and their relentless execution.

Jacques Delarue

#14. Just when had I become so self-absorbed? I was a form of self-preservation, I realized now; I had resolved that ... I could survive Colonel Wood's cruelty if my heart, my mind, had shrunk to a size designed to absorb my own troubles only.

Melanie Benjamin

#15. The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat.

Arthur Koestler