1Julie Anne Peters
Laura Formisano 2Michelle Yeoh
Laura FormisanoIt 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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3Chaz Bono
Laura FormisanoStaring at her and thinking, ‘How did a girl like her end up with a girl like me?’
4Ellen DeGeneres
Laura FormisanoThere’s happiness, and then there’s love and then there’s completion.
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5Barbara de Angelis
Laura FormisanoLove is a choice you make from moment to moment.
6Rita Mae Brown
Laura FormisanoI became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong and compassionate.
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7Cristina Marrero
Laura FormisanoYou had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a lifetime.
8Malika E. Nura
Laura FormisanoI 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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9Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laura FormisanoAll love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon sand.
10Elizabeth Gilbert
Laura FormisanoShe’s my role model, my traveling companion, my most reliable source of light, my fortitude.
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11Jenna Anne
Laura FormisanoBeing 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.
12Francine Chiar
Laura FormisanoThere'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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13Unknown
Laura FormisanoWe are both ‘the girl’ in the relationship. That’s kinda the point.
14Adrienne Rich
Laura FormisanoNo 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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15Cynthia Nixon
Laura Formisano 16Natasha Ngan
Laura FormisanoInstead 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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17Isabel Miller
Laura FormisanoIn your eyes I see myself become what I always dreamed I could be.
18Natalie Clifford Barney
Laura FormisanoWhen 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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19Brandi Carlile
Laura FormisanoI’m married to my best friend and nothing has ever brought me more joy than that.
20Sara Paddison
Laura FormisanoAs love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product.

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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