Michelle Tea Quotes

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How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

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The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

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Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i placed your hand above my heart, like i forgot i didn't live there anymore

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It just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

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I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don't know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.

Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea

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Born: 1971 (age 53)

Bio: Michelle Tea is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, prostitution, and other topics.

Known for:

Valencia (2000)
Rent Girl (2004)
The Chelsea Whistle (2002)
Rose of No Man's Land (2006)

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