Jill Johnston quotes
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“The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1985). “Paper daughter”, Random House Incorporated
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“Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people.”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1971). “Marmalade Me”
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“It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to do that. Yet, at the same time, it is often people with the least money and accompanying health inequalities that are most likely to benefit from breastfeeding”
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“Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : "Lesbian Nation". Book by Jill Johnston, p. 190, 1973.
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“It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
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“Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.”
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“All women are lesbians except those who don't know it ...”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1998). “Admission accomplished: the Lesbian nation years, 1970-75”, Serpent's Tail
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“Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
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“The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.”
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
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