George Weinberg Quotes
"Men are actually the weaker sex."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Men, Sex)
"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Men, Women, Fight, Independence, Struggle)
"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."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Time, Friend, Gay, Talk)
"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Father)
"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."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Family, Mother, Father, Job)
"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."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Husband, Job, Man, Woman)
"People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages."
- George Weinberg
(Related: People, Homosexuality, Shakespeare)
"The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Fear)
"You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else."
- George Weinberg
"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Courage, Opinions, Will, World)
"We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from."
- George Weinberg
"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."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Health, Vision, Myth, Want)
"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."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Men, Gay, Individuality, Suicide, Woman)
"We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Time)
"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Conventionality, Illness, Night)
"Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them."
- George Weinberg
(Related: People, Want)
"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Sanity, Self)
"Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Love, Man, Woman)
"It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Mother, Dress, Gay)
"All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Love, People)
"All who love are conspirators."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Love)
"An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Life, Idea, Will)
"And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture."
- George Weinberg
(Related: People, Sense)
"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Men, Independence, Value)
"Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Men, Women, Fighting, Friends, Rights, Gay)
"Homophobia is just that: a phobia."
- George Weinberg
"Hope never abandons you, you abandon it."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Hope)
"I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Being, Word)
"I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others."
- George Weinberg
(Related: People, Being)
"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."
- George Weinberg
(Related: People, Obvious)
"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."
- George Weinberg
(Related: People)
"I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Being)
"If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Time, Sex, Act, Confession, Sexuality, Will)
"Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Intimacy)
"But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Cure, Obstacles)