Kathy Acker Quotes

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Supportive, Men

• On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Surface, Act, Lived

• We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways – you know minor ways and major ways – like what you’ve just encountered which isn’t censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Major, Censorship, Minor, Sorts, Uglier, Something, Know

• You know I’ve had work banned.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Banned, Know

• The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it’s really the talk for those who have.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Examine, Literary

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Working, Easily, Trying, Language

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write, Remember

• But I still don’t have a clear idea of what my voice is.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voice, Idea

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hurt

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Country, Power

  Tags in Right Wing, Reasons, Talks

• You can do whatever you want with my work.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Whatever

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Students, Female, Body

• And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Political, Tool, Effective, Very

• I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identify, Read

• We’ve been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Right Wing, Things, Understanding

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Differences, Understand

• There’s a backlash against womyn that’s really bad right now.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backlash, Right

• Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I’m grateful when you use it.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Work

  Tags in People

• I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I’m not so censored when I use dream material.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censored, Writing, Overcome

• That’s what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right Wing, Left Wing, Good

Kathy Acker (34)

Birth:	18th April, 1947
Death:	30th November, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Poet

About

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.

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