daughter of Sappho

English

Noun

daughter of Sappho (plural daughters of Sappho)

  1. A homosexual woman.
    • 2002, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference, page 216:
      Traces of the answer, I submit, are to be discerned in all writings by the daughters of Sappho or the descendents of the tenth muse—Yourcenar, Paglia, Mehta, Patkar, et al. Women want what most men will never admit that they also want — women want to know what it is to belong to another sex.

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