...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“i was really into communal living and we were all / such free spirits, crossing the country we were / nomads and artists and no one ever stopped / to think about how the one working class housemate / was… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“Andrea worked to harden herself to the onslaught of feelings. The problem with feelings was, first you had one, which was generally bad enough.… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“She wouldn't have sex with me in public bathrooms. Little things like this haunted me. I was only twenty-five.” — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right? — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
If I talk about the bad old days of crystal meth for too long, I start getting like, "Oh...speed...that was delicious..." But in general,… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places. — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem as certain.… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
