Quotes
[Warning: some of the following are politicized, others deal with love and other such
shocking and offensive issues, if you're
not open-minded, flee now.]

You can neither conform nor deny.
     ~Quentin Crisp (he and Peter Tatchell and Ani DiFranco are my current idols, and everyone should see and read Virginia Woolf's Orlando)

The joys of queerdom, I bet straight people wish they had neat symbols and rainbows and could come out and such.

Spikey

The only sin love can commit is to be joyless.
    ~Unknown (if anyone knows, tell me)

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.
    ~John Stuart Mills

The good want power, but to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.
       ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
     ~Simone de Beauvoir (isn't patriarchy fun?)

First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time
there was no one left to speak up for me.
      ~Rev. Martin J. Niemoller

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all
      ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

An eye for an eye will leave us all blind.
    ~Mahatma Gandhi (if only more people would realize that)

God is good, God is great, God's a big invertebrate.
    ~Unknown (really amusing song, need to find out who it's by and what it's called)

I pounded on my car and screamed, "They misspelled it! They misspelled it!" For some reason that offended me more than anything else.
    ~Elaine Noble, after finding "LESBEAN" scrawled on her vehicle (a womyn very much after me own heart)

It's passion, not sex, that is the sure foundation of lesbian identity.
    ~Gillian Hanscombe (I think passion ought to be the foundation of every identity, we dykes shouldn't get it all to ourselves)

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges it's life.
    ~Charlotte Bunch (another wonderful womyn, though I think more than existence is necessary, but I'll save that for a rant)

Shadows dance pain while the Light sings despairing.
    ~Mercedes Lackey, "Windrider Unchained" (<melts> she's just an exquisite author and lyricist and I love her)

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and three hundred sixty two admonishments to heterosexuals. This doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
     ~Lynne Lavner (yarrg! 'tis Christian, but it is so very useful against the Bible-thumping reactionaries)

Love wears a death mask and life is a liar.
   ~Mercedes Lackey, "Dark Lover" (<swoons> alright, I confess, I'm a Goth, and 'tis pretty and angsty)

Bring the peace that suffering redeems.
    ~Unknown (I think this is another Lackey quote)

The story of a love is not important- what is important is that one is cabable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
     ~Helen Hayes (happy quote :) )

She looked at me and the emptiness in her eyes was cruel to see. Then she turned away and said, "Once I loved, but love is dead." And I whispered "Sometimes love is only sleeping."
     ~The Monkees, "Love is Only Sleeping" (there are far too many lovely song quotes)

Books....My first friends. *smile* But not my last. But the ones that help me from losing myself unto the darkness.
     ~Matt Brennan (he makes it sound as though losing one's self unto the darkness were a bad thing)

The opportunity to be threatened, humiliated and to live in fear of being beaten to death is the only "special right" our culture bestows on homosexuals.
   ~Diane Carman, Denver Post (proof that there are still good people in the news media, and in my lovely state, too)

He who fights with monsters might take care, lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    ~Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil" (scary guy, but this is a profound truth)

Nothing can bring lasting peace, but you have it already if you just stop disturbing it. It is there always.
    ~Sri Swami Satchidananda (someone who agrees with my theory that peace is a natural state)

With your ordeal behind you and your fortunes again favorable, the path is smooth and pleasant; in all life this is proof of the joy of the soul, for surely the soul is harlot and virgin, mother and daughter of the flesh, the androgyne, father and mother; the soul is exalted and spurned, is debauched and holy, is knowledge and ignorance, is foolishness and wisdom, and nothing comes in life that is not part of your soul.
   ~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Crusader's Torch (yummy vamp novel, and lovely quote)

For Mine is the ecstasy of the spirit,
and Mine is also joy on earth.
For My law is love unto all beings.
Keep pure your highest ideals
Strive towards them,
let naught stop you or turn you aside...
    ~Disputed, "The Charge of the Goddess" (my happy, sparkly spiritual doctrine)

Hee hee, ax.

[Consciousness] is an actively sustained process of identifying one's impressions in conceptual terms, of integrating every event and every observation into a conceptual context, of grasping relationships, differences, similarities in one's perceptual material and of abstracting them into new consepts, of drawing inferences, of making deductions, of reaching conclusions, of asking new questions and discovering new answers and expanding one's knowledge into an ever-growing sum.
     ~Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness (I read hardcore philosophy, be shocked... actually, be shocked by the fact that I'm quoting Ayn Rand... I love her because she and I disagree about absolutely everything, and this is probably the longest statement she's ever made that I agree with.)

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

So you must not be frightened, if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.
      ~Rainer Maria Rilke (oh it's gorgeous...)