Beth Windle

“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle

“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
― May Sarton

“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it. Fabulous is one of those words that provide a measure of the degree to which a person or event manifests a particular oppressed subculture’s most distinctive, invigorating features. What are the salient features of fabulousness? Irony. Tragic History. Defiance. Gender-fuck. Glitter. Drama. It is not butch. It is not hot. The cathexis surrounding fabulousness is not necessarily erotic. The fabulous is not delineated by age or beauty. It is raw materials reworked into illusion. To be truly fabulous, one must completely triumph over tragedy, age, and physical insufficiencies. The fabulous is the rapturous embrace of difference, the discovering of self not in that which has rejected you but in that which makes you unlike, the dislike, the other.”
― Tony Kushner

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real