“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.” PeopleWayTryingHumansKindStillsEndsHardDreamHappensWould BeValuesRealizingCommunityFiguresRevolutionSucceedCapitalismBuiltProfitHuman LifeShocking80sI Still BelieveShocking Things Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.” WayEconomyPrivate Life Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.” WorldWayMaySexMaking Love Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.” PeopleWayGivingBodyDesireSexPracticePossibilityGiving UpClaimsProfoundNervousDistinctiveArticulating Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.” WayPoliticalChallengesStayingDreamer Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body and whether anybody would ever want you, that's a huge world and that doesn't shift because you're fifty; it doesn't shift because you're 80. It's a vision of the possibility of claiming the right to dream and imagine an impossible place that you were never allowed to go, but you want the world to have as a possibility in the future.” WorldWayWantPersonsDreamBodyYoungVisionStruggleImagineImpossiblePossibilityHugeYour BodyFiftyPossessedUnimaginable Author:Amber Hollibaugh
