See Lesbian on Wiktionary
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"text": "Except two breeds—the stupid and the narrowly feline—all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.",
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"text": "One woman wrote, “Because you are Black and Lesbian, you seem to speak with the moral authority of suffering.” Yes, I am Black and Lesbian, and what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering.",
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"text": "1989, Florence King, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=dUgPxKzVq9AC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&sig=S6zgYpw5y_WwqtsoCEvYZdb6Bds\nSuddenly open enrollment struck the Sapphic elite and dykes-for-the-masses were everywhere. We got the Lesbian detective, the Lesbian ghost, the Lesbian vampire, the possessed Lesbian, the Lesbian next door, the Lesbian with a heart of gold, the kept Lesbian, the other Lesbian, the Lesbian amnesiac, the Lesbian with cancer, and just plain Butch."
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