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f6971cf	I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.	thoughts romance identity religion life lesbian	Jeanette Winterson
adfc787	Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.	love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers forbidden-love impossible-love lesbian in-love unrequited-love	Patricia Highsmith
f479709	There's a Greek legend--no, it's in something Plato wrote--about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That's why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.	lesbian lgbt mythology	Nancy Garden
b9bc900	It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.	romance love lesbian	Fannie Flagg
04189b5	"God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons."	godly lesbian stupid	Libba Bray
55039e5	Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.	stereotypes love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
c7e2343	And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.	sex romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian perfect right	Patricia Highsmith
7d2a2b9	As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.	tomboy lesbian	Jeanette Winterson
77cfc27	She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?	in-the-closet patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt gay-rights lesbian lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
c2408ae	At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?	labels happy fluid-sexuality patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt sexuality	Patricia Highsmith
813ce82	She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.	love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers impossible-love lesbian society lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
13f965f	...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-	romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lucky lgbt	Patricia Highsmith
04f4d9c	She said she'd often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She'd spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you'd done in a past life you didn't need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn't be ready to do now.	life lesbian reincarnation	Jeanette Winterson
0792532	The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge...	gay-teen queer-youth trans lgbtq lesbian queer lgbt	Radclyffe Hall
17bc76e	The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.	funny family love fridge brother lesbian dinner problems conversation random sexuality father unrequited-love	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
83753f2	I kissed her and forgot death.	kiss love lesbianism lesbian existentialism	Jeanette Winterson
ef758db	When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.	hatred man hate women love lesbian	Graham Greene
d0f7a03	First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man	black-skin lesbian black race gender lust	Alice Walker
5720350	She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.	true-love relationships romance love lesbian lesbian-romance	Michelle Tea
6eb12e4	What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after? Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk. Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us laugh sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh. Shug say, Ain't they something? Us say um , and slap the table, wipe the water from our eyes.	lesbian	Alice Walker
194881e	"Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians." "Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in. "If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman."	religion love inspirational lesbian	Ali Vali
665df0f	[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature.	psychological writer nature people women writing gentle misanthrope contradictions lesbian novels insightful sweet like insight	Andrew Wilson
fc82966	It shook Therese in the profoundest part of her where no words were, no easy words like death or dying or killing Those words were somehow future, and this was present. An inarticulate anxiety, a desire to know, know anything for certain, had jammed itself in her throat for a moment she felt she could hardly breathe.	love carol-aird therese therese-belivet lesbian lgbt gay	Patricia Highsmith

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

thoughts romance identity religion life lesbian

Jeanette Winterson

adfc787

Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.

love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers forbidden-love impossible-love lesbian in-love unrequited-love

Patricia Highsmith

f479709

There's a Greek legend--no, it's in something Plato wrote--about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That's why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.

lesbian lgbt mythology

Nancy Garden

b9bc900

It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.

romance love lesbian

Fannie Flagg

04189b5

"God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons."

godly lesbian stupid

Libba Bray

55039e5

Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.

stereotypes love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt

Patricia Highsmith

c7e2343

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

sex romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian perfect right

Patricia Highsmith

7d2a2b9

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

tomboy lesbian

Jeanette Winterson

77cfc27

She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

in-the-closet patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt gay-rights lesbian lgbt

Patricia Highsmith

c2408ae

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?

labels happy fluid-sexuality patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt sexuality

Patricia Highsmith

813ce82

She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.

love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers impossible-love lesbian society lgbt

Patricia Highsmith

13f965f

...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly lucky suddenly. It was so easy for a man and woman to find each other, to find someone who would do, but for her to have found Carol-

romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lucky lgbt

Patricia Highsmith

04f4d9c

She said she'd often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She'd spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you'd done in a past life you didn't need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn't be ready to do now.

life lesbian reincarnation

Jeanette Winterson

0792532

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge...

gay-teen queer-youth trans lgbtq lesbian queer lgbt

Radclyffe Hall

17bc76e

The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.

funny family love fridge brother lesbian dinner problems conversation random sexuality father unrequited-love

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

83753f2

I kissed her and forgot death.

kiss love lesbianism lesbian existentialism

Jeanette Winterson

ef758db

When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.

hatred man hate women love lesbian

Graham Greene

d0f7a03

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man

black-skin lesbian black race gender lust

Alice Walker

5720350

She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.

true-love relationships romance love lesbian lesbian-romance

Michelle Tea

6eb12e4

What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after? Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk. Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us laugh sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh. Shug say, Ain't they something? Us say um , and slap the table, wipe the water from our eyes.

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Alice Walker

194881e

"Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians." "Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in. "If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman."

religion love inspirational lesbian

Ali Vali

665df0f

[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature.

psychological writer nature people women writing gentle misanthrope contradictions lesbian novels insightful sweet like insight

Andrew Wilson

fc82966

It shook Therese in the profoundest part of her where no words were, no easy words like death or dying or killing Those words were somehow future, and this was present. An inarticulate anxiety, a desire to know, know anything for certain, had jammed itself in her throat for a moment she felt she could hardly breathe.

love carol-aird therese therese-belivet lesbian lgbt gay

Patricia Highsmith