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Straight People Quotes

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Sarah Schulman
“I am not here to entertain straight people.”
Sarah Schulman

“I have an antipathy to dogs, not because they are faithful, but because they are shameless. Because they carry on their love affairs on the street.â€� Again that crimson flush overspread her features. “Cats are more cultured about such things—if I may use that much misused word. There are insects that mate only in the darkest nights, in the most forsaken corners, so that no forester has ever succeeded in observing them. I've always held that there will come a time when we will speak of the barbarous practices of this century, or the last ten centuries, as if they were a fairy-tale. Just think how tremendously funny it must strike any sensitive person when two people, having conceived a certain desire to go to bed with one another, set a special date for the event. They inform certain public institutions, the State, the Church. They tell their friends and relations, their own parents, their own brothers and sisters. On the day which is to end in that night, they gather everybody they know about them, let themselves be observed by persons who stuff themselves and drink until they are sick, listen to suggestive songs and suggestive speeches—and yet do not get sick themselves. I've always had a feeling that marriage as it is practiced today would be fit punishment for a hardened criminal. It is such a cruel, such an exquisite torture. Metta, my child, oblige me and if you ever decide to marry, do it when you desire and not on some appointed day. Do it in utter secrecy so that no living soul can suspect the possibility of such a thing....”
Anna Elisabet Weirauch, The Scorpion

Ann Bannon
“God. I couldn’t have stood another minute of it. Straight people are so depressing.”
Ann Bannon, I Am a Woman

“... there was no point in trying to argue semantics about subtle bigotry with a straight white guy.”
E.M. Lindsey, Like Water Catching Fire