Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.