Greedy Quotes

“Maybe confusion is as queer as it gets.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“Gay and lesbian bars, safe havens for some, are rarely safe havens for bi people. But where does that leave us to go? It’s like the gay and straight communities are our parents and each thought the other would pick us up from school.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“You put off coming out because you thought no one would care, but as it turns out, plenty of people do care, just not in the way you’d hoped.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“When I say Queer love, I mean love that makes its own rules. Love that exists without borders and thrives without clean lines. Love that creates more space than it takes up.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“One of my favorite unlearning techniques is to look at any stereotype, assumption, or injustice, and simply ask: Why? If, like an incredulous three-year-old, we keep repeating that one-word question, each answer will bring us closer to our world’s deepest truths. It’s like peeling an onion- the more layers we remove, the more we’ll confront ideas that are so entrenched within our realities that we wouldn’t have dared to question them outright. Sometimes it’s hard to see that there was an onion in the first place. And, to fully round out this metaphor, sometimes peeling that onion can make us cry.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“Femme-affective homoinfatuation disorder”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much