"Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice."

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Source : Quoted in Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-OnWoman (1972). This saying, from a 1970 speech, is usually quoted, "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."

Ti-Grace Atkinson

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“I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.”
“For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.”

Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books
“America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
“The 4D style, or cosmic comics and relativistic humor, is based on Einstein's theory of relativity which I came up with 20 years ago. 4D works use the idea of the fourth dimension, time, playing on such surrealistic and amazing subjects as motion relativity, space curvature and time dilation.”

Source : "Cartoonist Alizadeh, Translating World Into Humor". Press TV, April 23, 2009.
“In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.”
“When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.”
“a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall (1987). “Words on fire: the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn”, Rutgers Univ Pr
“You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.”

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