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For 2.000 years, you've had the nerve to tell women who we are. We use your words; we eat your food. Every way we get money has to be a crime. We are plagiarists, liars and criminals.

— Kathy Acker Blood and Guts in High School (1978)

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The German Romantics had to destroy the same bastions we do.

Empire of the Senseless (1988)

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

Empire of the Senseless (1988)

The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.

Don Quixote (1986)

"Why are they ashamed and miserable?"
"They're repenting they're white.

Don Quixote (1986)

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 by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.

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