“I know I'm a little different from everyone else, but I'm still a human being. That's what I'd like you to realize. I'm just a regular person, not some monster. I feel the same things everyone else does, act the same way. Sometimes, though, that small difference feels like an abyss. But I guess ther…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“A friend just pointed out to me that being a lesbian has nothing to do with men, which is true, but it suddenly dawned on me how patriarchal it is of men to assume otherwise — that being gay has anything to do with rejecting or even hating men. Poor fragile men!”— Sally Kohn, twitter.com