What if Icarus hadn't hurtled into the sea? What if he'd inherited his parent's inventive bent? What might have wrought? - Alison Bechdel

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

[on Stonewall Inn] And while I acknowledge the absurdity of claiming a connection to that mythologized flashpoint...might not a lingering vibration, a quantum of rebellion, still have hung in the humectant air?

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.

But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.