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25 Lesbian Love Quotes to Share With Your Sweetheart

Cute, sweet and even funny sayings.

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When you're really feeling some kind of way about someone, it can be even harder to come up with the words to express how you feel. You know when you've got that head over heels, can't eat, can't sleep, over the fence, out of the park, World Series kind of love, sometimes the old brain just goes blank every time the object of your affection enters the room (or the group chat). And for those who are in non-heterosexual relationships, sometimes it can even be tough to find the perfect sentiment to mirror your particular relationship.

Whether you're trying to figure out how to write a love letter, need a fitting instagram caption for that photo of the two of you looking too cute for words or just want to scrawl something sweet in a DIY Valentine's Day card, you're sure to find one of these sweet quotes centered around lesbian love to fit the bill. We gathered some of our favorite sayings from famous lesbian novelists, actors, poets, activists and our favorite LGBTQ+ movies and pop culture so there's something to suit every occasion. Start with these words of wisdom and then take it from there to find the sweet nothings that show off your particular love best. Maybe some of them will inspire you to cuddle up together and take in a romantic comedy movie, read a steamy novel to each other by candlelight or just reminisce over what makes your relationship so uniquely yours.

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Julie Anne Peters

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Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

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Michelle Yeoh

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It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.

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Chaz Bono

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Staring at her and thinking, ‘How did a girl like her end up with a girl like me?’

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Ellen DeGeneres

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There’s happiness, and then there’s love and then there’s completion.

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Barbara de Angelis

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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

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Rita Mae Brown

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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong and compassionate.

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Cristina Marrero

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You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a lifetime.

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Malika E. Nura

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I found you in the clarity of the moon, not the rigor of the sun. Not in the light, where it’s easier to see, but when the world is blind and loves eyes are free.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon sand.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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She’s my role model, my traveling companion, my most reliable source of light, my fortitude.

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Jenna Anne

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Being a lesbian means I have the opportunity to love what is uncommon and I'm okay with that. I do not cry myself to sleep or am upset by the life that I lead because of who I care about. Because I accept the fact that it is simply love.

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Francine Chiar

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There's something about you and I'm finding it impossible to stay away. Whenever you're near, 'I love you' is all I want to say.

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Unknown

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We are both ‘the girl’ in the relationship. That’s kinda the point.

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Adrienne Rich

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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

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Cynthia Nixon

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I’m in love with Christine because she’s her. If she were a man, would I be in love with her? I don’t know. We shop and cook and raise children — we both pitch in.

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Natasha Ngan

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Instead of disappearing, she makes me feel reappeared. Reimagined. Her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core.

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Isabel Miller

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In your eyes I see myself become what I always dreamed I could be.

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Natalie Clifford Barney

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When she lowers her eyes, she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them, I see only myself in her gaze.

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Brandi Carlile

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I’m married to my best friend and nothing has ever brought me more joy than that.

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Sara Paddison

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As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product.

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Lizz (she/her) is a senior editor at Good Housekeeping, where she runs the GH Book Club, edits essays and long-form features and writes about pets, books and lifestyle topics. A journalist for almost two decades, she is the author of Biography of a Body and Buffalo Steel. She also teaches journalism as an adjunct professor at New York University's School of Professional Studies and creative nonfiction at the Muse Writing Center, and coaches with the New York Writing Room.
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