Linda Lovelace Quotes

“My biggest mistake ... was letting whatever man I happened to be near make all the decisions, no matter how bad those decisions were. And there's a reason for that.... And so long as the man wasn't beating me, wasn't handing me around to his friends, I would happily let him make all the decisions. Some of those decisions eventually cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“Finding the strength to deal with yesterday has given me the strength to deal with today.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“The bad experiences I had to go through have value, and a life that once had no meaning now has some meaning.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“Maybe the porno business is a rhinoceros and I'm just BB pellet bouncing off it.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“The statute of limitations is a real obstacle to women such as myself. After being enslaved and degraded for a period of years, you don't just escape and go running to an attorney. It takes years to get over the fear, to find yourself, to discover who you really are and what you're capable of doing.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“I can remember when there wasn't room for anyone else in my prayers; now my prayers are crowded.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“Gloria's article also drew a new kind of creature out of the woodwork; the intellectual critic who would never have otherwise noticed my book but now saw me as some kind of danger”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“My relationship with feminism has never been one-sided. They use me to show people what can happen when an innocent person is dragged down into the pornographic sewer. And at the same time they deliver the message I want delivered: There is a way out.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“My relationship with feminism has never been one-sided.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“Some people ask me whether the woman's movement is using me a bit. It's only natural they would use me as an example of what can happen to a woman involved in pornography. This is the way I want to be used, these are the causes I want to be involved in.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“Did anyone really believe the story? Was I getting through to anyone? Or was I doomed to be always what I had been ten years earlier: A bad joke- the Linda Lovelace doll; wind her up and she swallows the key.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“Men who get a charge from that movie are buying the notion that women are meant to be used. They don't see women as equal partners in sex or anything else.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“The basic oral fantasy- sex without effort, sex without involvement, sex without hassle, sex without any effort on the man's part.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“People may open this book with a snicker, they will not be laughing when they close it.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“I began to wonder how anyone ever managed to get the truth told in this country. I still do. It isn't easy.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“And there's so much that hasn't been said, so many things we haven't been able to say to each other.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“They clearly ranked the name (as did most people of intelligence) about midway between Adolf Hitler and Lucretia Borgia in appeal.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“I'm afraid that's the kind of memory I have- good times disappear in a kind of rosy blur; bad times stay with me forever.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“That's what I always think of when I think of hard times- cars that don't run and mechanics who do.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“For years I had been the prisoner of a sadistic pimp. And now I was the prisoner of circumstance.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“It's one thing to be poor and it's quite another to be both poor and famous. Worse still is to be poor and famous and a sex symbol.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“Larry helped bring back reality into my life. How did I return the favor? By trying to inject unreality into his.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage

“God knows I had enough practice at that- at not thinking about what I was doing.”
― Linda Lovelace, Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage