Dykes Quotes

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Tori Amos

Fun, Piano, Female

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The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

Matthew Sweet

Birthday, Summer, Party

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There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

Audre Lorde

Mother, Teacher, Keys

Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favorites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

Colin Mochrie

Kids, Two, Laughing

"10 Questions: Colin Mochrie". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 9, 2003.

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I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

Matthew Sweet

Birthday, Party, Wilson

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And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.

Nas

Writing, Stuff, Nasty

"Song:N.Y. State of Mind". March 29, 1994.

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Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Susie Bright

Knowing, Looks, Want

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Then there's the in-between, not a lipstick lesbian, not a butch dyke. I think that is what I'd be, a sweatpants lesbian.

Adam Carolla

Funny, Humor, Thinking

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Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

Del LaGrace Volcano

Growing Up, Artist, Years

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I am a dyke! And I'm damn proud of it!

Joan Rivers

Proud, Damn

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

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Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke!

Lea DeLaria

Nice, Bigs

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February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

Thomas Tusser

February

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Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.

Alastair Campbell

Jobs, Records

"Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.'

Lea DeLaria

Mother, Nice, Bigs

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Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.

Truman Capote

Men, Thinking, People

Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.22, Vintage

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I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.

Dick Van Dyke

Fun, Writing, Said

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The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).

Kate Bornstein

Queens, Kings, Boys

"Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

Joan Jett

Cute, Girl, Names

The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. February 25, 1998.

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Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were fags and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes!

Fred Phelps

Two, Enemy, Thank God

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

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Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage, Men, Zest

Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long hair, and everyone is too pretty. Theres so much pressure on this one show, the first of its kind, to represent every dyke or lesbian in the world. But [lesbian viewers] are not going to be disappointed, because by the end of the first season [there are] a lot of diverse characters.

Leisha Hailey

Character, Hair, Long

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[On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

Yvonne Zipter

Softball, Sports, Baseball

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When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

Arnie Kantrowitz

Dream, Gay, Men

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I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

Dick Van Dyke

Fun, Thinking, Two

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They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.

Roger Ebert

Sex, Powerful, Trying

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