Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.
Ti-Grace AtkinsonI propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
Ti-Grace AtkinsonThe price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide.... I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.
Ti-Grace Atkinson