"...people like to say things like 'all work……" — Michelle Tea
"...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 specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped."
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17 Quotes by Michelle Tea
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There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.
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I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know,…
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you are right where you should be / now act like it
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Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be…
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i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.
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it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like…
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This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.
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You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice…
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Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.
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I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker…
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Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your…
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How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her,…
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