Judy Grahn Quotes

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  • Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

  • Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

    Want  
    Judy Grahn (1990). “The Queen of Swords”, Beacon Pr
  • From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

    Mother   Rocks   Giving  
    Judy Grahn (2009). “The Judy Grahn Reader”
  • Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

    Blood   Modern   Source  
  • Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

    Believe   Ugly  
    Judy Grahn (1990). “The Queen of Swords”, Beacon Pr
  • The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

    Sex   Attitude   Gay  
    Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”
  • We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

    Color   Secret   Lavender  
  • He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

    Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”
  • We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

    Past   Mirrors   Happens  
    Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”
  • The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

    Judy Grahn (1984). “Another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds”, Beacon Press (MA)
  • What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

    Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”
  • Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

    Gay   Culture   Sexuality  
    Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”
  • Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

    Bread   Common  
  • The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

    Dog   Wall   Mirrors  
    Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”
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