Coming Out, All The Way Out, Is

As A Writer, I Must Be Free To Say What Is In All The Diversity I Can Command. I Regret The Distorting Prejudices That Surround Me, Whether They Affect Homosexuals Or Men Or The Physically Handicapped And I Can't Alone Defeat Them. They Will Not Defeat Me, Either As A Lesbian Or A Writer.

The Terrifying Message Of Gay Liberation Is That Men Are Capable Of Loving Their Brothers. It Should Be Sweet News To Every Womanin The World, For, If The Capacity Of Men To Love Whom They Have Been Taught To Treat As Competitors And Enemies Can Transcend Their Education, The World Can Begin To Heal.

I Had Always Said To Myself That Forty Was The Cut Off Point Of My Apprenticeship Which May For Some People Sound Like A Very Long One, But The Novel As Art Is A Middle-aged Art.

Conventions, Like Clichés, Have A Way Of Surviving Their Own Usefulness.

If We Don't Bear Witness As Citizens, As People, As Individuals, The Right That We Have Had To Life Is Sacrificed. There Is A Silence, Instead Of A Speaking Presence.