George Weinberg quotes
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“But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.”
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“We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.”
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“All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.”
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“My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.”
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“I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.”
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“I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.”
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“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.”
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“Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.”
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“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.”
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“It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.”
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“The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.”
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“If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.”
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“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.”
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“Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.”
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“Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.”
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“What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.”
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“As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.”
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“An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.”
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“And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.”
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“Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.”
-- George Weinberg
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