It’s LGBT History Month here in the U. S. I’m going to celebrate throughout the month by posting various quotes by famous lesbians about motherhood. Let’s start with two verses by the Ur-Dyke herself:

A fair daughter have I, Cleis by name,
Like a golden flower she seems to me.
Far more than all Lydia, her do I love,
Or Lesbos shimmering in the sea.

Hail, gentle Evening, that bringst back
All things that bright morning hath beguiled.
Thou bringst the lamb, thou bringst the kid,
And to its mother, her drowsy child.

— Sappho, translated by Edwin Marion Cox