Quotations
Dick Armey: “Barney Fag,” 1995
During a 1995 radio interview, Dick Armey of Texas, the Republican Majority leader, discussed a book that he had written about freedom: "I like peace and quiet, and I don't have to listen to Barney Fag -- Barney Frank -- haranguing in my ear because I made a few bucks off a book I worked on."[1]
Jerry Falwell: "I point the finger," 2001
In response to the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center: "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularise America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.' "[2]
Barney Frank: "Miss America," 2008
Asking the Republican White House to support more government intervention to help homeowners at risk of foreclosure is "like asking me to judge the Miss America contest -- if your heart's not in it, you don't do a very good job."[3]
Charlotte Roche: "feminism of the body, June 6. 2008
About her novel Wetlands, published in Germany: “It’s not feminist in a political sense, but instead feminism of the body, that has to do with anxiety and repression and the fear that you stink, and this for me is clearly feminist, that one builds confidence with your own body . . . .”[4]
Gertrude Stein: "she was gay then," 1908-1912
"She told many then the way of being gay, she taught very many then ways they could use in being gay. She was living very well, she was gay then, she went on living then, she was regular in being ay, she always was living very well and was gay very well and was telling about little ways one could be learning to use in being gay, and later was telling them quite often, telling them again and again."[5]
References
- ↑ Jerry Gray, “No. 2 House Leader Refers to Colleague With Anti-Gay Slur,” New York Times, January 28, 1995.
- ↑ "Falwell: blame abortionists, feminists and gays," The Guardian (UK), September 19, 2001.
- ↑ David Herszenhorn, "A Liberal Wit Builds Bridges To the G.O.P.", New York Times, May 13, 2008, pp. A1, A17.
- ↑ Nicholas Kulish, "Germany Abuzz at Racy Novel Of Feminism, Sex and Hygience," New York Times, June 6, 2008, pp. A1, A12.
- ↑ Quoted from "Miss Furr and Miss Stein," in Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), p. 407.
