Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great. |
All who love are conspirators. |
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. |
There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know. |
No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other. |
But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive. |
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. |
We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that. |
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it. |
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect. |
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions. |
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word. |
I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did. |
Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else. |
Homophobia is just that: a phobia. |
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything. |