Rubyfruit Jungle

by Rita Mae Brown

we’re just All-American queers.”

I’m the hottest thing since Eisenstein;

but I start to resent you for all the things that make you strong, that enable you to stand up under that daily erosion. I begin to hate myself because I’m not like you.

“Madam, I am a full-blooded, bona fide lesbian.

Women kissing women is beautiful. And women making love together is dynamite.

At least in New York City I can be more than a breeder of the next generation.

then watch out world because I’m going to be the hottest fifty-year-old this side of the Mississippi.