Lesbian Love Story Quotes

“Lesbians, in my eyes, are defined as the ones who invent their own systems of love: Romantic love. Family love. Friend love. A love for community, and for strangers too. They love when there is nothing to gain—no kingdom, no castle, no seat in the official record books of history—even when they are at risk of losing everything.”
― Amelia Possanza, Lesbian Love Story

“The archives was created to break the concept of fame,” she told me. “If you have the courage to touch another woman and to claim that touch . . . that, for us, was fame enough.” Acknowledgments.”
― Amelia Possanza, Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives

“Queerness may be at its most visible when it defines romantic love, but it is also inscribed in our broader communities. Friendship is resistance to Gayle Rubin’s traffic in women and the very structures that built this system of traffic.”
― Amelia Possanza, Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives