For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is…

- Cheryl Clarke

The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.

- Cheryl Clarke

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, mai…

- Cheryl Clarke

So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.

- Cheryl Clarke