Quotes from Amber Hollibaugh

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.