Leslie Cohen > Quotes

“when everything in your life is so uncertain, you cling to clarity where you can find it. You cling to anything you can find that feels good or familiar”
― Leslie Cohen

“Does an apartment still exist once you no longer live there? Why does a restaurant continue to operate once you've paid the bill and walked away, the door swishing closed in your wake? I can't fully acknowledge that the place has moved on. Without me.”
― Leslie Cohen

“This is the other reason I wrote this book. Perhaps, one day, when Beth and I are long gone, your children, or grandchildren—straight, lesbian, gay, transgender, or whatever—may find themselves standing before the Gay Liberation sculpture in Christopher Park in the West Village of New York City. It will mean so much to us if whoever is looking and, possibly, wondering who those two women sitting on the bench were, knows that we were two women who spent a lifetime together and were very much in love, and that that possibility belongs to them, too.”
― Leslie Cohen, The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation