77 Quotes by Michelle Tea

To be a butch girl in high school, to be better at masculinity than all the men around you, and then to be punished for it!

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell.

You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

They were living exciting, crazy, queer lives full of poetry and camaraderie and heart-seizing crushes. I mean, not that night, but generally. That night they were bored.

Michelle wasn’t butch enough to mess around with men. It would be simply heterosexual, and slutty. For Ziggy and Stitch it was something else, proof of their toughness. They could tumble around with this guy and emerge from the van as queer as ever, more queer, even, and the man might now in fact be a bit queer from his time spent cracked out in Ziggy’s butch bosom.

Older Fags and Younger Fags, Like Legally Young. Daddies. Zeus and Ganymede.Ganymede was a child, Ziggy schooled her.Yeah, You Were There, Michelle retorted, On Mount Olympus. You Were Working the Door. You Carded Ganymede.

The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.

The Leatherman was a lesbian phenomenon and life ran more smoothly because of it.