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Sally Gearhart

  • There are no words more obscene than 'I can't live without you.'

  • The wind she lifts my laughter / the wind she lifts my cares, / and bearing both my joy and pain / she thus my body bears.

  • I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian.

    • Sally Gearhart,
    • in Leigh W. Rutledge, ed., Unnatural Quotations: A Compendium of Quotations by, for, or about Gay People ()

Sally Gearhart, U.S. writer, educator, political/feminist activist

(1931)

Full name: Sally Miller Gearhart.