George Weinberg Quotes

"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."

"Homophobia is just that: a phobia."

"All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before."

"All who love are conspirators."

"An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important."

"And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture."

"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."

"Because human beings are the stimulus, a common homophobic reaction is brutality in many cases, as we all know. We also know its consequences."

"But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive."

"Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else."

"Hope never abandons you, you abandon it."

"I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word."

"I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others."

"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."

"I found in my own life that heterosexual acts that initially made me feel like a freak became second nature and quite reasonable very quickly."

"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."

"I've had so many friends who were homosexual and who shared interests with me, who were generous and non-competitive and sensitive."

"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."