Michelle Tea Quotes

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• There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.
• I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know, get drunk, run around, take…
• you are right where you should be / now act like it
• Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel…
• i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.
• it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.
• This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.
• You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full…
• Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.
• I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch…
• Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and…
• 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 her…
• The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is…
• ...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…
• Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar…
• There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly…
• Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

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