Ruth Harris > 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

“... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.”
― 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

“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

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

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

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the authors’ imaginations or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can”
― Ruth Harris, Hooked

“They called it The Lullaby Room.”
― Ruth Harris, Code Name: MK-ULTRA: A CIA Cold War Spy Thriller