Decades Quotes

“...often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a bitch when she was threatened. It was the only effective self-defense she had learned. The more frightened ... felt, the harder she lashed out. It was her offense and her defense.  ...the bitch was also ... the poet. She was a very sensitively constructed sending and receiving mechanism, extremely vulnerable and extremely wary.”
― Ruth Harris, Decades

“To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.”
― Ruth Harris, Decades

“... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.”
― Ruth Harris, Decades

“Just because I'm hungry doesn't mean I'm going to fall in love with a hamburger.”
― Ruth Harris, Decades

“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. ”
― Ruth Harris, Decades

“Great minds work in similar directions.”
― Ruth Harris, Decades

“I'm not paying to have my head shrunk. I'm so interesting they ought to pay me.”
― Ruth Harris, Decades