"I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it." – Joss Whedon
Shane: [repeatedly at the poker game] "Liquor in the front. Poker in the rear." - The L Word
Betty: [taking a quiz] :Do you consider yourself exceptionally reasonable or exceptionally kind?: Mason: "Exceptionally kind." [Betty looks at him questioningly] "Well, I'm not particularly reasonable." - Dead Like Me
Giai: "Where are you going?" Linda: "You don't have any clothes on." Gia: "Don't change the subject." - Gia
5/14/05:
"I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes." - Angelina Jolie
"The Christian Civic League's effort to invade the privacy and destroy the careers of Maine's gay and lesbian citizens is an offense of the highest order deserving all of the condemnation I can muster." - John Elias Baldacci
"The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers." – Joss Whedon
"Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree." - Rick Mercer
"We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." - John F. Kerry
"When the woman in the audience at my talk said "I survived lesbian feminism and still desire women", I thought that was a really great line, because one of the problems has been the normative requirement that has emerged within some lesbian-feminist communities to come up with a radically specific lesbian sexuality." – Judith Butler
"One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian." - Shirley Chisholm
"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
Vickie : Do you ever wish you were a lesbian? Don't you think it would be so much easier?
Lelaina : Sometimes, but I don't know. I could never go through with it. I'd start laughing or something.
Vickie : That is such a shame because I have had it with men. - Anon.
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." - Jesse Jackson
"Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one." - Kate Clinton
"As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room." - Lea DeLaria
"The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us." - Amanda Bearse
5/7/05:
"My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share." Rita Mae Brown US author and social activist
"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." Lynn Lavner - as published in PFLAG
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It has been proven that the pig is the only homosexual animal. As this perversion is most prevalent in pork-eating nations, it is obvious that it gets into your genes through the meat." Tasleem Ahmed - Islamic missionary, from a Muslim mission in Galaway Ireland, first quoted in London's "Freethinker" magazine
"This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." Rita Mae Brown, Gay Olympics, 1982 US author and social activist
"Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart." Becky Rodenbeck
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." Rita Mae Brown US author and social activist
"As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls."
Rita Mae Brown, "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual" US author and social activist
"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." Rita Mae Brown US author and social activist
"Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women." Rita Mae Brown
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher, given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs." Robert Scheer
"Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children." Sam Austin