Homosexuality Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Rita Mae Brown,
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,
Gore Vidal
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| Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. |
| - Matthew Arnold |
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| Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next step. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The closet is an awful place to die. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. |
| - Pearl Bailey |
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| Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. |
| - James Baldwin |
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| In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. |
| - Simone de Beauvoir |
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| Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers? |
| - Elayne Boosler |
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| My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. |
| - Rita Mae Brown |
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| No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. |
| - Rita Mae Brown |
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| What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? |
| - Rita Mae Brown |
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| As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. |
| - Anita Bryant |
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| If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters. |
| - Anita Bryant |
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| Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole. |
| - Judy Carter |
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| Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. "I had a great time with... them." Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut! |
| - Judy Carter |
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| Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. |
| - Eldridge Cleaver |
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| Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. |
| - Hart Crane |
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| In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. |
| - Quentin Crisp |
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| Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. |
| - Nora Ephron |
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| Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here. |
| - Melissa Etheridge |
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| You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. |
| - Melissa Etheridge |
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| There is just one life for each of us: our own. |
| - Euripides |
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| For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. |
| - Clifton Fadiman |
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| Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. |
| - Shakti Gawain |
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| If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. |
| - Barry Goldwater |
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| Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head. |
| - Graffiti |
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| Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. |
| - Homer |
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| My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. |
| - Bill Kelly |
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| The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. |
| - Lynn Lavner |
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| Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants. |
| - Lynn Lavner |
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| Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. 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 |
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| The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. |
| - Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
| - Agnes Repplier |
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| Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. |
| - Dr. Seuss |
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| To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. |
| - Thomas Szasz |
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| Each one of them is Jesus in a distressing disguise. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." |
| - Robin Tyler |
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| If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. |
| - Robin Tyler |
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| You could move. |
| - Abigail Van Buren |
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| The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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| To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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| Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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| What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. |
| - Tennessee Williams |
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