Jill Johnston Quotations

Bisexuality is not so much a copout as a fearful compromise.

All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, some unknown force makes us move on, only death obviously relieving us from these exhausting cycles.

Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.

The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.

Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

All women are lesbians except those who don't know it ...

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.

It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to do that. Yet, at the same time, it is often people with the least money and accompanying health inequalities that are most likely to benefit from breastfeeding

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people.

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.