“Characters Rarely Identified Themselves As Bisexual Out Loud - Instead They Behaved Their Bisexuality,

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“When you do take the trouble to point out that you are, in fact, bisexual - that no matter whether you are with a man or a woman you will always have the potential to go either way - people look at you with scepticism, confusion, disbelief, or perhaps even envy. Their faces say this: you’re lying to yourself, it’s just a phase, you don’t know what you want, you’re letting the side down, you’re greedy, you don’t exist. But you do exist. Here you are.”

- Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality

“Issues of shame pervade the difficulties bisexuals face in attempting to form a positive, well-integrated bisexual identity. Because an individual member of an oppressed group is frequently seen as representative of all the members of that group, a bisexual-identified person may feel a sense of shame when any bisexual person behaves in such a way as to reinforce negative stereotypes of bisexual people. Furthermore, a bisexual individual may feel a profound sense of shame when her own behavior happens to mirror one of the existing stereotypes… Individuals in such situations may feel that they are in some way betraying their entire identity group. Although some bisexual people do behave in ways that conform to negative stereotypes about bisexuals, it is actually the dynamics of prejudice that cause others to use such actions to justify their stereotyping and prejudicial behavior.”

- Robyn Ochs, Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority

“I think (bisexuals) can offer an analysis of power inherent not only in male-female relationships but also in the dynamics that exist in other hierarchical relationships. If as bisexual women we can create models for egalitarianism, or for potential egalitarianism in relationships with men, then there’s also the potential to use those models between women. If we can build alliances with men, who are our oppressors, then also it means that for those of us who are white women, or are able-bodied women, that we can also begin to know our role as allies to women of colour, to disabled women, to psychiatrized women. You know, there’s that possibility.”

- Lilith Finkler, Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities

“While my feelings of sexual attraction toward a man may or may not occur concurrently with feelings of attraction for a woman, I recognize that those sexual and emotional feelings don’t belong to different “selves” (a homosexual self and a heterosexual self) but rather to my one, evolving self.”

- Ann Fox, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

“Politicised bisexuals want to connect with lesbian/gay groups, not to overthrow them, and to strengthen, not dilute, lesbian/gay anger and power.”

- Amanda Udis-Kessler, Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives