Lesbian Empowerment Quotes

My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.

Lesbians have never been more popular.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear friends who are seminal in my life.

I tell them that Im a lesbian but doesnt seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we havent met the right guy yet, or that weve been raped or abused by our daddies and were just waiting for Mr. Right to come sweep us off our feet, and Im really tired of seeing that.

Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for 'positive images' of lesbians.

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.

When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.