My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

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)

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

One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness. – Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964