The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.