Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations: A Collection of 3,000 Thoughts, Insights, Views, and Perceptions from Antiquity to the Present

This unique treasury of memorable quotations from across the centuries and around the world is an outstanding record of gay and lesbian sensibility. Joe Orton on Truth: "There are two sexes. The unpalatable truth must be faced." Eleanor Roosevelt on Curiosity: "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." Rita Mae Brown on Art: "If Michelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller." H.D. on Achievement: "We have not crawled so very far/up our individual grass-blade/toward our individual star." Jean Cocteau on Arguments and Quarrels: "But brawling leads to laryngitis." Boy George on Advice: "If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role." Florence King on Solitude: "He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she."