Top 32 Califia Quotes
#1. I think we are doing poor sex education if we don't look at how erotic behavior actually takes place, and offer people interventions that are reasonable. - Pat Califia
Tristan Taormino
#2. Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia
Carol Queen
#3. Most of us made a rather extensive study of heterosexuality before leaving it behind. -Pat Califia
Carol Queen
#4. There was one rumor that "Susie Bright" and sex theorist "Pat Califia" were one and the same, and that this individual was not actually a woman at all but a pimp hired by an entity composed of the Mitchell Brothers and a Japanese porn syndicate, which was selling women as sex slaves overseas.
Susie Bright
#5. Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#6. There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail, backsliding begins. Or totalitarianism.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#7. I am writing this book for people like me -- the person I was ten years ago.
Michelle Alexander
#8. Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool
Patrick Califia-Rice
#9. A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.
Patrick Califia
#11. Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.
Patrick Califia
#12. When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.
Patrick Califia
#13. When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.
Patrick Califia
#14. If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.
Patrick Califia
#15. S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations. ... the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off' ...
Patrick Califia-Rice
#16. The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.
Joni Mitchell
#17. This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.
Patrick Califia
#18. The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.
Patrick Califia
#19. SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#20. She appreciated the fact that the wolf did not caper, bow down, yelp, or slaver on her, in the slavish and inconsiderate way of dogs. The wolf was no whore for man's approval. He fed himself.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#22. As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.
Patrick Califia
#23. Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.
Rita Moreno
#24. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown
Melinda Curtis
#25. Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers ... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.
Patrick Califia
#26. Love your siblings. Love them well,
for they are your blood, and when you are unsure,or times are difficult, they will be the ones to stand by your side.
Julia Quinn
#27. Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.
Johan Cruijff
#28. My body has become
another country
and I feel like an unemployed
illegal alien
how will I survive
where I do not belong
I belong with you
Patrick Califia-Rice
#29. If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#30. I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.
Pat Nixon
#31. By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.
Patrick Califia
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