Allison Moon > Allison's Quotes

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body”
― Margaret Cho

“Creepy is being attached to an outcome. If you approach someone with the goal of sex, and hten find thins not going in that direction, you may try to steer things back to sex. This is creepy.”
― Allison Moon, Girl Sex 101

“Lesbian communities tend to be more intricate and intimate than other communities because of this
lack of attachment to outcomes. You might hit on a girl and find out she’s monogamously partnered,
but you end up falling in love with her ex, who’s also the nanny of her kids. This kind of thing isn’t
weird at all in many queer communities. So embrace the possibility of nuance in relationships. Flirt
and play with the intention of connection in its myriad ways, and odds are, you’ll find something that
works for both/all of you.”
― Allison Moon, Girl Sex 101: A Queer Pleasure Guide For Women and Their Lovers

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Taoism is a way of liberation, which never comes by means of revolution, since it is notorious that most revolutions establish worse tyrannies than they destroy.”
― Alan Watts

“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Meaning is not in things but in between them.”
― Norman O. Brown

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird