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My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer."
"What's that?"
"You have to find out what caused it."

Kathy Acker

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.

Kathy Acker

But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.

Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker

Born: April 18, 1947

Died: November 30, 1997 (aged 50)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
Pussy, King of the Pirates (1996)
In memoriam to identity (1990)
My Mother: Demonology (1993)
Essential Acker

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