{"quotes":[{"text":"Stop wiggling - you’ll move when I move you.","author":"Heather McVea","tags":["horror-fantasy","lesbian","vampire"],"id":1381,"author_id":"Heather+McVea"},{"text":"As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["gender","lesbian","tomboy"],"id":1880,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.","author":"Andrea Gibson","tags":["andrea-gibson","heartbreak","lesbian","lgbt","love","maybe-i-need-you","spoken-word"],"id":7756,"author_id":"Andrea+Gibson"},{"text":"Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.","author":"Kate Aaron","tags":["funny","gay","gay-stereotypes","lesbian","love","relationships"],"id":16621,"author_id":"Kate+Aaron"},{"text":"I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.","author":"Rita Mae Brown","tags":["beautiful","strong","lesbian "],"id":20630,"author_id":"Rita+Mae+Brown"},{"text":"No. I don´t think it does go away. I know it won´t for me. I will keep busy. I will distract myself. I will eventually have days when I don´t have to remind myself to breathe. I know Nasrin will exist, maybe even be happy, and I will be okay. I ´ll bury my love, but it will never really go away.","author":"Sara Farizan","tags":["heartbreak","lesbian","lgbt","loss","love","pain"],"id":20659,"author_id":"Sara+Farizan"},{"text":"If you don't know for sure, then what's the big thing about trying stuff out?' Jamie said, looking not at me but looking out at that statue, just like Hennitz.I still didn't have any of the right words. 'It's more like maybe I do know and I'm still confused too, at the same time. Does that make sense? I mean, it's like how you noticed this thing about me tonight, you saw it, or you already knew it - it's there. But that doesn't mean it's not confusing or whatever.","author":"Emily M. Danforth","tags":["lesbian","lgbt","lgbtq"],"id":23278,"author_id":"Emily+M.+Danforth"},{"text":"They were Catholic, my lovers,All in an access of crossing themselves,Particularly their fingersBehind their suspendered backs--And that was the women.","author":"Shay Caroline","tags":["catholics","deception","lesbian","lies"],"id":23462,"author_id":"Shay+Caroline"},{"text":"Valérie: 'You know, you don't need to be a lesbian to be a feminist. Nor do you need short hair to be a lesbian. Or a feminist.'Yes, but helps, doesd't it?' Astrid counters.","author":"Clémentine Beauvais","tags":["feminist","funny","lesbian","short-hair","silly"],"id":24030,"author_id":"Cl%C3%A9mentine+Beauvais"},{"text":"That her own self-deception and self-absorption, her own slavery to the society and family in which she had been brought up, had reduced this blameless man to a weeping wreck struck her as horrific. She saw more clearly than she had ever seen before that she must change, or keep hurting the people who truly loved her.","author":"Shamim Sarif","tags":["consequences","lesbian","lgbt","life-lessons","love","pain","unrequired-love"],"id":31578,"author_id":"Shamim+Sarif"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":136,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}