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Diane di Prima
8 quotes
“I wanted everything — very earnestly and totally — I wanted to have every experience I could have, I wanted everything that was possible to a person in a female body, and that meant that I wanted to be mother. ... So my feeling was, 'Well' — as I had many times had the feeling — 'Well, nobody's done it quite this way before but fuck it, that’s what I'm doing, I'm going to risk it.”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I decided I didn't want to live with a man. My family experience of growing up made me think that living with men wasn't a nice idea. I had lots of lovers, and I asked people if they wanted to father a kid, and everybody thought I was insane, and finally I didn't ask — I just got pregnant and had Jeanne.”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“get up, put on your shoes, get started, someone will finish”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Left to themselves people grow their hair. Left to themselves they take off their shoes. Left to themselves they make love sleep easily share blankets, dope & children they are not lazy or afraid they plant seeds, they smile, they speak to one another.”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“avoid the folk who find Bonnie and Clyde too violent”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“but don’t get uptight : the guns will not win this one, they are an incidental part of the action which we better damn well be good at, what will win is mantras, the sustenance we give each other, the energy we plug into”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“NO ONE WAY WORKS, it will take all of us shoving at the thing from all sides to bring it down.”
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source