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“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.”

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Minnie Bruce Pratt

Minnie Bruce Pratt is an American educator born on September 12, 1946. She has had a significant impact in academia, particularly in the fields of feminism and African American literature. more

“A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.”

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Author:Cherrie Moraga

“It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.”

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Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.”

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Author:Alison Bechdel

“I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”

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