Michelle Tea

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gender

female

place of birth

Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Gay & Lesbian

influences

Eileen Myles' Chelsea Girls, Cookie Mueller, Richard Hell, Jim Carroll's diaries, Bukowski, Wanda Coleman, Violette Leduc's La Batarde, Linda Yablonsky's Story of Junk, all of the women in Sister Spit!

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avg rating: 3.71 | 3,994 ratings | 530 reviews | 14 distinct works | 27 fans

	Valencia by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.75 — 1,089 ratings — published 2000 2 editions	my rating:
	Rent Girl by Michelle Tea, Laureen McCubbin (Illustrator) avg rating 3.75 — 694 ratings — published 2004	my rating:
	Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.38 — 525 ratings — published 2006 4 editions	my rating:
	The Chelsea Whistle (Live Girls Series) by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.89 — 394 ratings — published 2002 2 editions	my rating:
	The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.80 — 394 ratings — published 1998 2 editions	my rating:
	Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (Live Girls Series) by Michelle Tea avg rating 4.10 — 288 ratings — published 2004	my rating:
	Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.32 — 166 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	The Beautiful: Collected Poems by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.89 — 141 ratings — published 2003	my rating:
	It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.46 — 92 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person by Michelle Tea avg rating 3.47 — 77 ratings — published 2004	my rating:

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quotes by Michelle Tea

"Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet."
— Michelle Tea (Rose of No Man's Land)

11 people liked it

"you are right where you should be / now act like it"
— Michelle Tea (The Beautiful: Collected Poems)

10 people liked it

"i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour."
— Michelle Tea (Rent Girl)

6 people liked it

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