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

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

Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into…

- Joan Nestle

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

- Joan Nestle