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“No one on earth is tougher than a butch with a perm.”

“…grouchy discontent…”

“ although I was reinhabiting my historian’s role, I was doing it in a new way, helping to foster a field of inquiry - gender and sexuality studies- of more than academic interest: the archival materials being unearthed could provide the gay and feminist movements with fresh data for challenging old assumptions and stereotypes.”

Listening while running.

“The women delighted in the absurdities an surprises their work threw up.”

“…never before had I sensed any racism in the Adirondacks…”

“I couldn’t attack the mainstream and at the same time expect its applause.”

Discussion of brain worms found in wild game!

“Lesbians, as was often the case, were not discussed.”

“Also, you can’t stay terribly angry or worried over things for long when you split wood. Every blow of the ax can be sublimated into chopping off your enemy’s head or punching…”

“If we ever run into each other on the street, feel free to tell me stories from your life. It’s only fair.”

“In my experience, telling someone to calm down has the opposite effect.”

“The only nickname I was called growing up [in San Antonio, TX] was faggot.”

“Shyness is inherited, you know.”

“You can’t teach somebody what you don’t know.”

“He said: ‘Maybe you dealt with her at a distance.’
I said: ‘I dealt with everybody at a distance.’”

“You think about the sea that covered this place hundreds of millions of years ago, the slow evaporation, mud turned to stone. There’s nothing calm in those thoughts. It isn’t finished, it can still tear apart. Nothing is finished. You take your chances.”

“‘Go get something a eat, I hope. I’m hungry enough I could eat a rancher’s unwiped ass.’
‘You want some buffalo wings? Practically the same thing.’”

“The disaster movie is no longer a fantasy; it’s real life, getting realer by the day.”

“For twenty years the Coffeepot’s foreman had been a woman, Mrs. Freeze, a crusty old whipcord who looked like a man, dressed like a man and swore like a man, but carried a bosom shelf, an irritation to her as it got in the way of her roping.”

“A murderer she might be but no one could say her house wasn’t clean.”

“It would’ve been impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation though, was a luxury I could never afford.”

“…people will pay to read what they already know.”

“Ruler: ‘Why do you go about looking as you do?’

Me: ‘Because that’s the way I am.’”

This exchange took place in the 1930s.

In 1931:
“The sky was dark with millionaires throwing themselves out of windows.”

teddy bear catapult

“You can’t kill the spirit. She is like a mountain.”

“A new caricature has emerged: the righteous Midwestern racist, who is almost always an elderly man from a bottomed-out industrial town, whose fealty to 7rump is explained solely by his economic anxiety.”

“Only the rich can afford to write about the poor.”

“Those of us who have taken part in civil resistance movements in the past know all too well that authoritarians depend on apathy.”