Definition of Lesbian

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Lesbian

Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

Amatory; erotic; -- in allusion to the reputed sensuality of the Lesbian people and literature; as, Lesbian novels.

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Lesbian Quotations

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae Brown

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
Bruce Springsteen

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
Dawn French

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
Billie Jean King

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.
Audre Lorde

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Audre Lorde

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
Audre Lorde

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
Audre Lorde

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
Judith Butler

Lesbian Translations

lesbian in German is lesbisch
lesbian in Italian is lesbio
lesbian in Norwegian is lesbisk
lesbian in Spanish is lesbiana
lesbian in Swedish is lesbiska

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