Joan Nestle quotes
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“To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.”
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“Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit.”
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“I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform.”
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“As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.”
-- Joan NestleSource : Joan Nestle (1987). “A restricted country: essays and short stories”
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“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
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“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
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Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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