They might even be some of the same scenes that you found offensive or disturbing. Pay attention to those scenes; they can teach you a lot about yourself, and that information is worth knowing.”

The element of mutual homosexuality made it seem more perverse, yet safe.

these concepts are used only as signposts, demarcating territory that then can be deliberately transgressed.

if we are not safe to indulge in this playful, vulnerable, and necessary activity, pleasure ourselves and the others who fascinate us, how safe can a society be for women?

The whore does not sell her body. She sells her time. So she has time that is not for sale, that belongs to no one but herself.

I never ceased to be amazed by the ways that feminism could be twisted to justify a morality that duplicated every prejudice held by fundamentalist Christians—except for the part about lesbians.

Our culture

alternative universe in which sex is uncoupled from the ongoing reality of death and dying from AIDS.

Lesbian writers must have the option to write about men. There ought not to be any subject that we cannot give our attention to. A lesbian perspective on the world is as valid and can be as interesting (or as trite) as anyone else’s.