The Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations - Softcover

Smith, Patricia Juliana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609802623 ISBN 13: 9780609802625

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 1999

Synopsis

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."

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0609802623
• ISBN 13: 9780609802625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432