Esther Newton > Quotes

“. . . universities are not independent from our social order, but are paid and organized to perpetuate and legitimize it. Not all the ways in which we are implicated are obvious, though. Some are so subtly structural that trying to change them is like to crawl out of your own bones.”
― Esther Newton, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

“When I kiss her I am kissing 1903.”
― Esther Newton, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas