Sapphism Quotes

“Do you remember, darling
A year ago today
When we gave ourselves to each other
Before you went away
At the end of that pleasant summer weather
Which we had spent by the sea together?

How little we knew, my darling,
All that the year would bring!
Did I think of the wretched mornings
When I should kiss my ring
And long with all my heart to see
The girl who gave the ring to me?

We have not been sorry darling
We loved each other so-
We will not take back the promises
We made a year ago-

And so again, my darling
I give myself to you,
With graver thought than a year ago
With love that is deep and true.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

“I write from the Land of Violets, and from the Land of Spring...”
― Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“I must wait
a few Days
before seeing
you – You are
too momentous.

But remember
it is idolatry,
not indifference.”
― Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“Will you let me come dear Susie - looking just as I do, my dress soiled and worn, my grand old apron, and my hair - Oh Susie, time would fail me to enumerate my appearance, yet I love you just as dearly as if I was e'er so fine, so you wont care, will you?”
― Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“We had a surprise visit from the Nicolsons. She is a pronounced Sapphist, and may, thinks Ethel Sands, have an eye on me, old though I am. Snob as I am, I trace her passions five hundred years back, and they become romantic to me, like old yellow wine.”
― Virginia Woolf

“It is heavy work to live without women's society & I would for rather while away an hour with this girl, who has nothing in the world to boast but good humor, than not flirt at all.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“She is my wife in honor & in love & why not acknowledge her such openly & at once? I am satisfied to have her mind, & my on, at ease. The chain is golden & shared with M---. I love it better than any liberty.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840