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“a fist in a velvet glove. She wants to be subdued, she wants to be dominated, but she wants it to be intensely intimate, intensely sweet.”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“We were taught to value love yet not to rely on it too heavily, because the world of excessive freedom in which we had been made would not foster the long-suffering loyalty that love required. We were encouraged to care deeply about the state of our world but our ability to affect it personally was very much in doubt. In general, we were told that the distance between desire and obligation had been closed in the preceding decades, but everyone seemed to agree that the absence of obligation would not free us. Most of all we found ourselves believing in complexity. This paradigm had some merit; it allowed us to avoid extreme states of dogma and ignorance, like militarism or participation in pyramid schemes.”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“What a pleasure it was to be obvious, even if what was obvious was merely my body”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“A life knows that it needs a shape and, taking cues from films and lives it has glimpsed, chooses a core around which to bend itself. A life recognizes the theater in which its keeper appears most real.”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service