“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

“No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

“Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.”

“Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!”

“Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples.”

“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”