I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality.… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values. I'm… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment.… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
