4 Quotes by Dodie Bellamy

public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don’t see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.

I couldn’t stand to be alone, yet I didn’t want anyone to witness my dailiness, an indiscriminate collage of fragments, random encounters.

All of this occurs in the past, except this sentence.

Slaves to our media delivery devices, we are ever available to this vague, demanding elsewhere, and our ability to experience the “now” is dissolving.