Kathy Acker

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

— Kathy Acker

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

— Kathy Acker

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

— Kathy Acker

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

— Kathy Acker

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

— Kathy Acker

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

“It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.”

— Kathy Acker

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

— Kathy Acker

...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on…

— Kathy Acker

“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at…

— Kathy Acker

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more…

— Kathy Acker

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to…

— Kathy Acker

“For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the…

— Kathy Acker

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations.…

— Kathy Acker

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…

— Kathy Acker

“Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness…

— Kathy Acker

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

— Kathy Acker

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

— Kathy Acker

“Heart disease syphilis pregnancy All you creeps on the street get away from me”

— Kathy Acker

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

— Kathy Acker

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

— Kathy Acker

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

— Kathy Acker

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

— Kathy Acker

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

— Kathy Acker

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

— Kathy Acker

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

— Kathy Acker

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

— Kathy Acker

“What she really wanted [...] was [...] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit.”

— Kathy Acker

Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

— Kathy Acker

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

— Kathy Acker

“Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the…

— Kathy Acker

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully.…

— Kathy Acker

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in…

— Kathy Acker

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices…

— Kathy Acker

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a…

— Kathy Acker