 An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important. |
| I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring. |
| We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others. |
| Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. |
| I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others. |
| If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality. |
| All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before. |
| People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages. |
| What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. |
| Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them. |
| It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress. |
| The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear. |
| Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. |
| You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. |
| My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time. |
| I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall. |
| And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture. |
| We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from. |
| We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay. |
| Men are actually the weaker sex. |
