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George Weinberg [0-0] American

George Weinberg is an Jewish-American psychologist, writer, and activist.

Independence, Men, Courage, Family, Graduation, Hope

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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.	Family, Graduation	101
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.		102
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.	Hope	103
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.		104
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.	Independence, Men	105
But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.		106
Men are actually the weaker sex.	Men	107
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.	Independence	108
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.	Courage	109
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.		110
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.		111
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.		112
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.		113
Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.		114
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.		115
We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.		116
All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.		117
Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.		118
Homophobia is just that: a phobia.		119
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.		120
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.		121
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.		122
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.		123
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.		124
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.		125
People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.		126
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.		201
There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.		202
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.		203
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.		204
We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.		205
All who love are conspirators.		206
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.		207
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.		208
It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.		209
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.		210

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