“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

“Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?”

“Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.”

“Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.”

“She has given me a way out.”

“Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of gr...”