As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.Collection: Independence
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.Collection: Courage
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.Collection: Independence
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.Collection: Graduation
Men are actually the weaker sex.Collection: Men
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.Collection: Hope
But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.Collection: Obstacles
We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.Collection: Hymns
Homophobia is just that: a phobia.Collection: Phobia
All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.Collection: Love
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.Collection: White
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.Collection: People
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.Collection: Pride
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.Collection: Night
Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.Collection: Short Love
All who love are conspirators.Collection: Conspirators
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.Collection: Father
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.Collection: People
It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.Collection: Mother
We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.Collection: Suicide
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.Collection: Aquariums
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.Collection: Friends
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.Collection: Sex
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.Collection: Gay