daughter of Sappho
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]daughter of Sappho (plural daughters of Sappho)
- A homosexual woman.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gay 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[sic] 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.