I Didn't Want To Be A Boy,

Coming Out, All The Way Out, Is Offered More And More As The Political Solution To Our Oppression.

Morality Is A Test Of Our Conformity Rather Than Our Integrity.

Conventions, Like Clichés, Have A Way Of Surviving Their Own Usefulness.

Love Is The Terrible Secret People Are Suspected Of Unless They're Married, Then One Always Suspects They Don't.

As A Writer, I Must Be Free To Say What Is In All The Diversity I Can Command. I Regret The Distorting Prejudices That Surround Me, Whether They Affect Homosexuals Or Men Or The Physically Handicapped And I Can't Alone Defeat Them. They Will Not Defeat Me, Either As A Lesbian Or A Writer.