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Nancy Manahan

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Retired college English teacher who has lived in Ghana, France, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the US. My ground-breaking best-seller Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence was published in 8 languages and 11 countries.

My wife, author Becky Bohan, and I split our time between Minnesota and Florida.

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	Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Nancy Manahan (Goodreads Author) (editor), Rosemary Keefe Curb (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 1985 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience 4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lesbian Path by Margaret Cruikshank (Editor), Ruth Baetz, Sandy Boucher 3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Consciously, Dying Gracefully - A Journey with Cancer and Beyond by Nancy Manahan (Goodreads Author), Becky Bohan (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Sea on the Range: From Berkeley Radical to Arizona Homesteader, 1934-1948 by Josephine Alexander (Goodreads Author), Natalya Lukin (preface), Nancy Manahan (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Justice Hall (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #6)

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Black Velvet and a Little Boi Smile: a butch-femme lesbian romance story

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Without Words: A Fantasy Lesbian Romance

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“I didn't know I was in love with her. I only knew that the chapel vibrated when she walked in, and my stomach lurched when she knelt soundlessly behind me. I longed for her touch.”
― Nancy Manahan, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence

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“Ironically groups of nuns or lesbians are often mistaken for one another today, since we often travel in female packs oblivious to male attention or needs. Eschewing the cosmetics and costumes of the commercially promoted feminine mystique, both nuns and lesbians are emotionally inaccessible to male coercion. Time and energy which heterosexual women devote to catering to men can be focused on private or communal projects. Despite similarities, a male-defined culture which moralizes about "sins of the flesh" and the pollution and evil of women's carnal desires sees both nuns and lesbians as "unnatural" but at opposite poles on a scale of female virtue.”
― Nancy Manahan, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence

tags: lesbian, lgbt, religion, sapphic, sexuality

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“(Straight people may have a difficult time understanding this desire to say our name because they have never been forced into deception.)”
― Nancy Manahan, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence

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