Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Every angel is terrifying. Through the darkness, they move silently... I will go down into death with you. I must go where I must… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
