"They really fear lesbians. Because in some strange level, let us never forget the ever-expanding gaseous state of the male ego. Which is men still believe that women do everything in response to them. Therefore, for a lot of these guys, a woman’s a lesbian because she hasn’t had him. He will change this dolorous experience and she will of course love men because of him. The truth is, women aren’t lesbians because of men. Women are lesbians because of women: they love women! And that’s what drives them crazy, they don’t want to accept that central fact of lesbian life, which is it has nothing whatsoever to do with men. And never will."
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Rita Mae Brown,
The Celluloid Closet (via
mischabarton2004)