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Daphne Gottlieb Quotes

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

Daphne Gottlieb
Doe, Pairs, Conquer

Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself

Daphne Gottlieb
Writing, Love Poems, Should
Daphne Gottlieb (2008). “Kissing Dead Girls”, p.120, Soft Skull Press

I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

Daphne Gottlieb
Beautiful, Girlfriend, Kissing

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 will not stop.

Daphne Gottlieb
Girl, Healing, Heart
Daphne Gottlieb (2011). “15 Ways to Stay Alive”, p.129, Manic D Press

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

Daphne Gottlieb
Writing, Needs, Building
"One on One: Justin Chin and Daphne Gottlieb". www.advocate.com. February 18, 2012.

I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.

Daphne Gottlieb
Writing, Make Sense

come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

Daphne Gottlieb
Hurt, Men, Sight

The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.

Daphne Gottlieb
Pregnancy, Divorce, Order
Source: therumpus.net

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

Daphne Gottlieb
Thinking, Faces, Continuing
"One on One: Justin Chin and Daphne Gottlieb". www.advocate.com. February 18, 2012.

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

Daphne Gottlieb
Wanted

All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She's right. It's kinky. The way he doesn't look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman's float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth's prowess. He's such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come.

Daphne Gottlieb
Beer, Boys, Love Is

you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.

Daphne Gottlieb
Relationship, Sex, Kissing

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