I Didn't Want To Be A Boy,

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.

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

If The Tenth Of The Population That Is Gay Became Visible Tomorrow, The Panic Of The Majority Of People Would Inspire Repressive Legislation Of A Sort That Would Shock Even The Pessimists Among Us.

This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle Of Pure Purposelessness.

Morality, Like Language, Is An Invented Structure For Conserving And Communicating Order. And Morality Is Learned, Like Language, By Mimicking And Remembering.