My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight. – Agavé Powers, 1994

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. – Gore Vidal (1925–2012)

I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share. – Rita Mae Brown

My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. – Amanda Bearse (b.1958)