Jean O'Leary quotes

“Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.”
-- Jean O'Leary

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“I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.”
-- Jean O'Leary

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“If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.”
-- Jean O'Leary

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“I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.”
-- Jean O'Leary

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“I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.”
-- Jean O'Leary

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“I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.”
-- Jean O'Leary

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“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.”

“Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.”

“Congenial labor is essence of happiness.”

“suffering is the essence of success!!!”

“growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.”

“Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.”

“It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.”

“The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

“The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.”