Words matter. These are the best George Weinberg Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
It wouldn’t have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
People have known of Shakespeare’s homosexuality down through the ages.
No man wants to feel that he’s there because of his woman’s biological clock or because he’s filling a job opening for husband or significant other.
We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
Men spend their whole lives showing that they’re strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
And I’ve known people who came out with a sense of torture.
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.
Men are actually the weaker sex.
Homophobia is just that: a phobia.
We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
All who love are conspirators.
I try not to deal with people’s hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.
I’m really not an avowed heterosexual. I’m no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
