This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle

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.

Every Artist Seems To Me To Have The Job Of Bearing Witness To The World We Live In. To Some Extent I Think Of All Of Us As Artists, Because We Have Voices And We Are Each Of Us Unique.

Coming Out, All The Way Out, Is Offered More And More As The Political Solution To Our Oppression. The Argument Goes That, If People Could See Just How Many Of Us There Are, Some In Very Important Places, The Negative Stereotype Would Vanish Overnight. ...it Is Far More Realistic To Suppose That, 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.

I've Never Been Resigned To Ready-made Ideas As I Was To Ready-made Clothes, Perhaps Because Although I Couldn't Sew, I Could Think.

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