Quotes from 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.

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

We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.

It's such a burden to have to pull off smart...

I suppose that words equal sex, or at least enough words, six and a half hours' worth.

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

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

Don't have much else to say, my brain is about having brain scum all over you, much as I did, because it kept acting up.

Put your head in my pussy, my refrigerator where all the bees want to go, honey.

time is no longer linear it's more like a chord that flashes in and out of being