Favorite Quotations

[Lumière]

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer."

~ Robin Tyler

[Lumière]

When you wake up in the morning - brush your teeth, comb your hair, wear a clean shirt, polish your shoes - and face the world. 
Even if you think you are nobody.

~My mom

[southendmd]

Aw, Milli, your Mom's a wise woman!

[Lumière]

You must let me
go first, Sue, because
I live in the Sea
always and know
the Road --
I would have drowned
twice to save you sinking, dear,
If I could only
have covered your
Eyes so you would'nt
have seen the Water--

~ Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert (Mid-1860s).

[Brown Eyes]

When you wake up in the morning - brush your teeth, comb your hair, wear a clean shirt, polish your shoes - and face the world. 
Even if you think you are nobody.

~My mom

This really is great Friend!



"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
Gloria Steinem

[Lumière]

"Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet.
The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties.
Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not."


“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him,
he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

~ Chinua Achebe

[Lumière]

"When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men
and a discharge for loving one."

~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

[Brown Eyes]

Some quotations from Christina G. Rossetti


“For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

“Silence is more musical than any song.”

"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”

[Brown Eyes]

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”
-Alice Walker

[Lumière]

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

~ Audre Lorde