Nobody could be more American than Jill Johnston in her very original book Lesbian Nation. Johnston comes on like a flood, vivacious, mile-a-minute, with an uncontrollable eloquence. No, not uncontrollable. The writing has liquidity, but also energy, and wit. Johnston is a genuine writer.

Mary Ellman

Jill Johnston has written an incredibly moving, funny book. Her prose poetic style alone makes the book entirely worth reading. It is a Steinesque stream of consciousness but the effect is pure Johnstonian. . . . From her verbal dance emerges a total womanwriter, ex-dancer, swimmer, and pipe hanger.

Georgianne Ozuk

Ms. Johnston's book speaks to all lesbians, to all feminists, and to all women, providing fresh insights and directions for women today. . . . Everyone reading it should be prepared to be overwhelmed.

Karen Browne

Majority Report, 1973

This book . . . settles clearly, effectively, and very enjoyably . . . whether Jill Johnston is merely an outrageous show-off or whether she is, as I believe, the most important feminist writer going.

Joan McCullough

Jill Johnston's book is honest, outrageous, stylistically unique, brave, vulnerable and full of love. If you read it, you will never be sure of anything.

Gloria Steinem

Lesbian Nation is the most important book to come out of the women's movement.

Kate Millet

Jill Johnston is one of the most serious, intelligent, honest and sublimely funny writers of our generation.

Rosalyn Drexler

.Jill Johnston's mind is one of the great female treasures. She doesn't simply set forth her insides; on the contrary she delivers the near and distant complexities of her thought in language dressed to kill.

Laura Shapiro

Fasten your mind belts securely before tackling this book. Jill Johnston waxes brilliant, moves from prose to poetry to essay with equal aplomb. There is a distinct absence of dogma in her book. Most of all, she is funny. She has that rare ability to laugh at her own foibles, and in so doing, outgrow them, and ascend to a higher place.

Helen Koblin