“I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are and not give a damn what anyone says.”

Foreword to My Dangerous Desire: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh, pg. xii.
Context: I want to write a great book — I want to make a difference — I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are and not give a damn what anyone says.

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poet, novelist, critic 1949

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