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 sec…

- Judy Grahn

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

- Judy Grahn

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

- Judy Grahn

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roe…

- Judy Grahn

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

- Judy Grahn

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

- Judy Grahn

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 …

- Judy Grahn

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

- Judy Grahn

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

- Judy Grahn