This unique treasury of memorable quotations from across the centuries and around the world is an outstanding record of gay and lesbian sensibility.
Joe Orton on Truth:
"There are two sexes. The unpalatable truth must be faced."
Eleanor Roosevelt on Curiosity:
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
Rita Mae Brown on Art:
"If Michelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller."
H.D. on Achievement:
"We have not crawled so very far/up our individual grass-blade/toward our individual star."
Jean Cocteau on Arguments and Quarrels:
"But brawling leads to laryngitis."
Boy George on Advice:
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
Florence King on Solitude:
"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she."
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About the Author:
Patricia Juliana Smith is visiting assistant professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Lesbian Panic: Homo, eroticism in Modern British Womens' Fiction, editor of The Queer Sixties, and the co-editor of En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera.
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- PublisherThree Rivers Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0609802623
- ISBN 13 9780609802625
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
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