Jill Johnston Quotes

• All women are lesbians except those who don't know it.

  Jill Johnston

  Sexuality, Knows

  Jill Johnston (1998). “Admission accomplished: the Lesbian nation years, 1970-75”, Serpent's Tail

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• Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.

  Jill Johnston

  Political Revolution, Political, Revolution

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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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 Johnston

  Men, Phases, He Man

  "Lesbian Nation". Book by Jill Johnston, p. 190, 1973.

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• Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

  Jill Johnston

  Passivity Is, Dragons, Independence

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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 Johnston

  Change, Order, People

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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• Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

  Jill Johnston

  Compromise, Cop, Sexuality

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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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 Johnston

  Mean, People, Telling It Like It Is

  Jill Johnston (1971). “Marmalade Me”

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• The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

  Jill Johnston

  Dream, Inmates, Ghost

  Jill Johnston (1985). “Paper daughter”, Random House Incorporated

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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

  Jill Johnston

  People, Breastfeeding, Cost

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• The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.

  Jill Johnston

  Reticence, Seems

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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