Top 5 Lillian Faderman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others married because they could see no other viable choice in the day.”

— Lillian Faderman

2. “Perhaps rage was an inextricable part of lesbian-feminism, because once these women analyzed the female’s position in society they realized they had much to be furious about.”

— Lillian Faderman

3. “A woman who dared to live as an overt homosexual in such unwelcoming times might well have an ego of impressive strength and health that permitted her it know her own mind and to be true to her conception of herself.”

— Lillian Faderman

4. “To learn of the existence of other lesbians through the media, no matter how unfortunate those characters were, must have been reassuring to women who loved other women.”

— Lillian Faderman

5. “Margaret Fuller, the leading antebellum female intellectual, even went so far as to suggest that the anti-slavery party ought to plead for women’s rights, too – because, like slaves, women were kept in bondage by civil law, custom, and patriarchal abuse.68 It was an emboldening insight. Elizabeth Cady, daughter of a prominent New York lawyer, had had fantasies when she was eleven years old of leading a life of scholarship and self-reliance.”

— Lillian Faderman

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