Lesbian Feminist Quotes

#1. When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical lesbian feminist and in some issues, like welfare reform, she pushed back against the new .

David Corn

#2. (T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

Tammy Bruce

#3. The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman's true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.

Janice Raymond

#4. I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

Audre Lorde

#5. I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

Carrie Brownstein

#6. In 2010, Iceland - with a lesbian prime minister and a parliament that is 50 percent female - became the first country in the world to outlaw strip clubs for feminist, rather than religious, reasons. I

Caitlin Moran

#7. Love is a word, another kind of open.
As the diamond comes
into a knot of flame
I am Black
because I come from the earth's inside
take my word for jewel
in the open light.

Audre Lorde

#8. I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

Laura Marling

#9. There are lesbians, God knows ... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York ... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

Audre Lorde

#10. At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen was here to make neither friends nor feminist stands. She was here to ruin Maisie's career!

Mads Sukalikar

#11. When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.

Fay Weldon

#12. Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?

Hillary Jordan

#13. Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness.

Timothy Leary

#14. I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

Judith Butler

#15. The future promises us all our very own Truman Shows and when every man and woman is a star the spectacle becomes auto- cannibalizing; the audience forced to watch itself due to lack of spectators

Dean Cavanagh

#16. The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

Kate Millett

#17. Before your greatest victories, you will always fight your greatest battles. Stay in the Fight.

Joe Joe Dawson

#18. Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Babette Deutsch

#19. Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Robert Benchley

#20. Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

Camille Paglia

#21. Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

Mattias Klum

#22. Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

Frank Herbert

#23. Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Gary Hopkins

#24. Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

John Stuart Mill

#25. Sometimes it's more fun to compete with your friends, because you can talk a little trash with them.

Derrek Lee

#26. There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Iain Duncan Smith

#27. I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.

Martha Shelley

#28. When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

Brittney Griner

#29. But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

#30. When we go into the 80's it has more of a pop feel. But it's what I wanted to do. I wasn't trying to reach. See, that's the thing with me, I never wanted to reach any particular crowd. I'm writing for myself. If I don't like it I won't play it for anybody.

Shuggie Otis

#31. Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

Dean Spade

#32. I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a source of pride and strength for me.

Sally Kohn