"Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014

Kate Clinton

“It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “The Balcony”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.”
“Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you”
“The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.”
“No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.”
“I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.”
“It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can refine what we're doing musically. Also how we can create our own music, and what opportunities that can bring us, as creative musicians. And then insisting that musicians put themselves through an intellectually rigorous process, which involves a lot of reading and writing, while insisting that music scholars think about ethics.”
“Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.”

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