--- title: "28 Daphne Gottlieb Quotes - Famous Writer (Final girl)" description: "American performance poet. Browse 28 Daphne Gottlieb quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b067/author-daphne-gottlieb-21866.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b067/author-daphne-gottlieb-21866.jpg) # Daphne Gottlieb (1968) Writer United States **28** quotes in **238** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Daphne Gottlieb is a writer from the United States, best known for *Final girl*. ## Quick Facts About Daphne Gottlieb Born January 1, 1968 Nationality United States Profession Writer Notable works Final girl ## About Daphne Gottlieb Daphne Gottlieb is a San Francisco-based performance poet. ## Quotes by Daphne Gottlieb > [I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-think-that-hope-is-the-act-of-continuing-in-the-face-of-the-truth/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Act](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/act/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/daphne-gottlieb-21866_act_i-think-that-hope-is-the-act-of-continui_1464471.png) > [Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/someone-should-write-me-a-love-poem-but-i-m-stuck-doing-it-myself/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/daphne-gottlieb-21866_love_someone-should-write-me-a-love-poem-but_1247783.png) > [That's point of writing: building what you need, right?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/that-s-point-of-writing-building-what-you-need-right/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Building](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/building/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/daphne-gottlieb-21866_building_that-s-point-of-writing-building-what-yo_2448510.png) > [“Fuck yr heroes, I'm saving myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/fuck-yr-heroes-i-m-saving-myself/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Fuck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fuck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cd/daphne-gottlieb-21866_fuck_fuck-yr-heroes-i-m-saving-myself-793953_793953.png) > [I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-write-to-make-sense-of-things-that-dont-make-sense-to-me/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Make sense](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/make-sense/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_make-sense_i-write-to-make-sense-of-things-that-don_1384326.png) > [I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-write-to-make-sense-of-things-that-don-t-make-sense-to-me/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [I write](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/i-write/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/189/daphne-gottlieb-21866_i-write_i-write-to-make-sense-of-things-that-don_2535124.png) > [you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/you-can-take-this-mouth-this-wound-you-want-but-you-can-t-kiss-and/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Kissing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kissing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af4/daphne-gottlieb-21866_kissing_you-can-take-this-mouth-this-wound-you-w_1022799.png) > [I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-go-through-periods-of-not-writing-until-there-s-something-i-can-t/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Find](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/find/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69d/daphne-gottlieb-21866_find_i-go-through-periods-of-not-writing-unti_514425.png) > [Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/love-at-least-the-pair-bonded-prescribed-love-does-not-conquer-all/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Bonded](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bonded/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2df/daphne-gottlieb-21866_bonded_love-at-least-the-pair-bonded-prescribed_276372.png) > [I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-go-in-and-out-of-season-i-won-t-write-for-months-and-then-all-of-a/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Fever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fever/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bb/daphne-gottlieb-21866_fever_i-go-in-and-out-of-season-i-won-t-write_919582.png) > [I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-m-not-a-girl-anymore-i-m-a-woman-and-my-heart-beats-like/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Beats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/050/daphne-gottlieb-21866_beats_i-m-not-a-girl-anymore-i-m-a-woman-and-m_3115777.png) > [There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/there-is-nothing-going-on-i-took-nothing-you-wanted-you-can-t-have-it/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Going](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/going/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9d/daphne-gottlieb-21866_going_there-is-nothing-going-on-i-took-nothing_617813.png) > [“the frightening truth about desire it's on but i don't know whether i want to be her, fuck her or borrow her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/the-frightening-truth-about-desire-it-s-on-but-i-don-t-know-whether-i/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37d/daphne-gottlieb-21866_desire_the-frightening-truth-about-desire-it-s_1968625.png) > [come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/come-back-so-i-can-say-yes-this-time-do-it-again-now-that-i-know-what/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Another man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-man/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/daphne-gottlieb-21866_another-man_come-back-so-i-can-say-yes-this-time-do_3134825.jpg) > [I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-m-entranced-by-the-idea-of-reading-the-culture-back-to-itself/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Also](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/also/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ee/daphne-gottlieb-21866_also_i-m-entranced-by-the-idea-of-reading-the_792730.png) > [I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-was-14-and-madly-in-love-for-the-first-time-he-was-21-he-made-me/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Across](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/across/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/503/daphne-gottlieb-21866_across_i-was-14-and-madly-in-love-for-the-first_2709873.png) > [All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/all-the-black-leather-she-needs-is-the-e-z-boy-recliner-where-her/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Beer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/daphne-gottlieb-21866_beer_all-the-black-leather-she-needs-is-the-e_1541147.jpg) > [I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-think-that-i-have-less-conviction-than-ever-that-poetry-matters/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Alphabet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alphabet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63c/daphne-gottlieb-21866_alphabet_i-think-that-i-have-less-conviction-than_1431917.png) > [The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/the-thing-about-superheroes-is-that-they-don-t-have-problems-right-a/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Assault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assault/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/656/daphne-gottlieb-21866_assault_the-thing-about-superheroes-is-that-they_2578127.png) > [Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/poetry-is-a-lousy-form-of-activism-it-doesn-t-really-change-much-and/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Activism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/daphne-gottlieb-21866_activism_poetry-is-a-lousy-form-of-activism-it-do_24338.jpg) > [“I am a few years older now and I know this: There are tastes of mouths I could not have lived without;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-am-a-few-years-older-now-and-i-know-this-there-are-tastes-of-mouths/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Adultery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adultery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/daphne-gottlieb-21866_adultery_i-am-a-few-years-older-now-and-i-know-th_2284575.jpg) > [“This week in live current events: your eyes. All power can be dangerous: Direct or alternating, you, socket to me. Plugged in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/this-week-in-live-current-events-your-eyes-all-power-can-be-dangerous/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Current events](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/current-events/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_current-events_this-week-in-live-current-events-your-ey_463649.jpg) > [“Fifteen Ways to Stay Alive 1. Offer the wolves your arm only from the elbow down. Leave tourniquet space. Do not offer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/fifteen-ways-to-stay-alive-1-offer-the-wolves-your-arm-only-from-the/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Stay Alive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/stay-alive/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_stay-alive_fifteen-ways-to-stay-alive-1-offer-the-w_2523560.png) > [“ GONE TO STATIC it sounds better than it is, this business of surviving, making it through the wrong place at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/gone-to-static-it-sounds-better-than-it-is-this-business-of-surviving/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/daphne-gottlieb-21866_business_gone-to-static-it-sounds-better-than-it_2804087.jpg) > [“As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/as-she-bends-for-a-kleenex-in-the-dark-i-am-thinking-of-other-girls/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Getting high](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/getting-high/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e5/daphne-gottlieb-21866_getting-high_as-she-bends-for-a-kleenex-in-the-dark-i_1122364.png) > [“watch your tense and case oh baby i want to be your direct object. you know, that is to say i want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/watch-your-tense-and-case-oh-baby-i-want-to-be-your-direct-object-you/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Bad grammar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-grammar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/daphne-gottlieb-21866_bad-grammar_watch-your-tense-and-case-oh-baby-i-want_2674368.png) > [“ MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED It is impossible for my mother to do even the simplest things for herself anymore so we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/my-mother-gets-dressed-it-is-impossible-for-my-mother-to-do-even-the/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Daughters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/daughters/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77d/daphne-gottlieb-21866_daughters_my-mother-gets-dressed-it-is-impossible_1840392.jpg) > [“ I KNEW IT WAS OVER when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring when you used to make the sun rise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/i-knew-it-was-over-when-tonight-you-couldn-t-make-the-phone-ring-when/) [Daphne Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-gottlieb/) [Breakups](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/breakups/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/daphne-gottlieb-21866_breakups_i-knew-it-was-over-when-tonight-you-coul_96718.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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You know what it's for, circuit-breaker, you know how to kiss until it's hertz.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Daphne Gottlieb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/this-week-in-live-current-events-your-eyes-all-power-can-be-dangerous/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_current-events_this-week-in-live-current-events-your-ey_463649.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_current-events_this-week-in-live-current-events-your-ey_463649.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_current-events_this-week-in-live-current-events-your-ey_463649.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This week in live current events: your eyes. 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Use a rusty knife to cut through most of the noose in a strategic place so that it breaks when your weight is on it. 10. Practice desperate pleas for attention, louder calls for help. Learn them in English, French, Spanish: May Day, Aidez-Moi, Ayúdame. 11. Don’t kiss trainwrecks. Don’t kiss knives. Don’t kiss. 12. Pretend you made up the zombies, and only superheroes exist. 13. Pretend there is no kryptonite. 14. Pretend there was no love so sweet that you would have died for it, pretend that it does not belong to someone else now, pretend like your heart depends on it because it does. Pretend there is no wreck — you watched the train go by and felt the air brush your face and that was it. Another train passing. You do not need trains. You can fly. You are a superhero. And there is no kryptonite. 15. Forget her name.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Daphne Gottlieb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/fifteen-ways-to-stay-alive-1-offer-the-wolves-your-arm-only-from-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_stay-alive_fifteen-ways-to-stay-alive-1-offer-the-w_2523560.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_stay-alive_fifteen-ways-to-stay-alive-1-offer-the-w_2523560.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/daphne-gottlieb-21866_stay-alive_fifteen-ways-to-stay-alive-1-offer-the-w_2523560.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Fifteen Ways to Stay Alive 1. Offer the wolves your arm only from the elbow down. Leave tourniquet space. Do…” — Daphne Gottlieb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 24, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“ GONE TO STATIC it sounds better than it is, this business of surviving, making it through the wrong place at the wrong time and living to tell. when the talk shows and movie credits wear off, it's just me and my dumb luck. this morning I had that dream again: the one where I'm dead. I wake up and nothing's much different. everything's gone sepia, a dirty bourbon glass by the bed, you're still dead. I could stumble to the shower, scrub the luck of breath off my skin but it's futile. the killer always wins. it's just a matter of time. and I have time. I have grief and liquor to fill it. tonight, the liquor and I are talking to you. the liquor says, 'remember' and I fill in the rest, your hands, your smile. all those times. remember. tonight the liquor and I are telling you about our day. we made it out of bed. we miss you. we were surprised by the blood between our legs. we miss you. we made it to the video store, missing you. we stopped at the liquor store hoping the bourbon would stop the missing. there's always more bourbon, more missing tonight, when we got home, there was a stray cat at the door. she came in. she screams to be touched. she screams when I touch her. she's right at home. not me. the whisky is open the vcr is on. I'm running the film backwards and one by one you come back to me, all of you. your pulses stutter to a begin your eyes go from fixed to blink the knives come out of your chests, the chainsaws roar out from your legs your wounds seal over your t-cells multiply, your tumors shrink the maniac killer disappears it's just you and me and the bourbon and the movie flickering together and the air breathes us and I am home, I am lucky I am right before everything goes black”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Daphne Gottlieb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-gottlieb/gone-to-static-it-sounds-better-than-it-is-this-business-of-surviving/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/daphne-gottlieb-21866_business_gone-to-static-it-sounds-better-than-it_2804087.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/daphne-gottlieb-21866_business_gone-to-static-it-sounds-better-than-it_2804087.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/daphne-gottlieb-21866_business_gone-to-static-it-sounds-better-than-it_2804087.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“GONE TO STATIC it sounds better than it is, this business of surviving, making it through the wrong place at…” — Daphne Gottlieb", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 25, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in love with a lion--she lost her head over it--we just necked a lot; of the girl who fell in love with the tightrope, got addicted to getting high wired and nothing else was enough; all the beautiful, damaged women who have come through my life and I wonder what would have happened if I'd met them sooner, what they were like before they were so badly wounded. 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I choose the clothes without zippers or buckles or straps, clothes that are simple but elegant, and easy to get into. Otherwise, it's just like every other day. After bathing, getting dressed. The stockings go on first. This time, it's the new ones, the special ones with opaque black triangles that she's never worn before, bought just two weeks ago at her favorite department store. We start with the heavy, careful stuff of the right toes into the stocking tip then a smooth yank past the knob of her ankle and over her cool, smooth calf then the other toe cool ankle, smooth calf up the legs and the pantyhose is coaxed to her waist. You're doing great, Mom, I tell her as we ease her body against mine, rest her whole weight against me to slide her black dress with the black empire collar over her head struggle her fingers through the dark tunnel of the sleeve. I reach from the outside deep into the dark for her hand, grasp where I can't see for her touch. You've got to help me a little here, Mom I tell her then her fingertips touch mine and we work her fingers through the sleeve's mouth together, then we rest, her weight against me before threading the other fingers, wrist, forearm, elbow, bicep and now over the head. I gentle the black dress over her breasts, thighs, bring her makeup to her, put some color on her skin. Green for her eyes. Coral for her lips. I get her black hat. She's ready for her company. I tell the two women in simple, elegant suits waiting outside the bedroom, come in. They tell me, She's beautiful. Yes, she is, I tell them. I leave as they carefully zip her into the black body bag. Three days later, I dream a large, green suitcase arrives. When I unzip it, my mother is inside. Her dress matches her eyeshadow, which matches the suitcase perfectly. She's wearing coral lipstick. \"I'm here,\" she says, smiling delightedly, waving and I wake up. Four days later, she comes home in a plastic black box that is heavier than it looks. In the middle of a meadow, I learn a naked more than naked. I learn a new way to hug as I tighten my fist around her body, my hand filled with her ashes and the small stones of bones. 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