Joan Nestle Professions : WriterBorn : May 12, 1940 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Joan Nestle Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit. Joan Nestle colorfleshtwo As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime. Joan Nestle exclusionchallengesjustice To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world. Joan Nestle strangehistoryworld I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform. Joan Nestle soldierdressesmen I don't feel abandoned or betrayed by another generation saying that they have to dismantle what seemed to give structure to our dreams, to form their own, that's not how history works. Joan Nestle top-news Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
