I'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places. — 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. But then you had a feeling about your feeling, and then a feeling about how you were feeling about your feeling, and then another feeling would pop up at the sight of it all, this teetering… — Michelle Tea Copy Share
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 of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that.… — Michelle Tea Copy Share
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
