Lesbian

Lesbianism is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in contrast to male homosexual behavior, which is expressly forbidden as a capital crime. The absence of discussion of lesbianism in this context has raised scholarly interest.
- Rebecca T. Alpert, Jewish Women's Archive, "Lesbianism".

Lesbianism is the ultimate expression of a feminist philosophy.
- Steven Barnes, Gorgon Child (1989), Chapter 9

For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such at that of North America, is an act of resistance.
- Cheryl Clarke, "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance," in This Bridge Called My Back (1981), p. 126

Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.
- Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life (1978)

There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.
- Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press. 1984. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-89594-142-8.

Lesbians are "dykes," not "dikes." We are not dams, although some people consider us damned.
- Margaret A. Robinson, in Ms. (February 1973)

At the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards (the awards the LGBT community gives to books ignored by straight book awards) not a single lesbian book nominated for best novel was published by a mainstream press. Our literature is disappearing at the same time we are being told we are winning our rights. How can we be equal citizens if our stories are not allowed to be part of our nation's story?
- Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (2012), p. 151

Forever in love with the word. Lesbian. The slow sexuality of it, a snake in the mouth.
- K Patrick, Mrs S (2023)

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