I forgot to mention, Acker was vegetarian.

ACKER, from ANGRY WOMEN (Juno Books):
"A gay friend of mine said something interesting to me. I asked her if she differentiated between gay and straight women, and she said, 'Yes, women who are gay are really outlaws, because we're totally outside the society--always.' And I said, 'What about people like me?' and she said, 'Oh, you're just queer.' Like--we didn't exists?! [laughs] It's as if the gay women position themselves as outside society, but meanwhile they're looking down on everybody who's perverse! Which is very peculiar..."

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"...we're looking for a society that allows us the fullness of what it is to be human, I would think--it's hard to know because I've never been there! But I read about societies in which ecstasy and joy and certain areas of sexuality are venerated (not just in individual situations--or maybe it can be even individual experiences that go further). And: a whole range of feelings--really, a fuller life! I keep thinking: what we know of as 'life' is so thin and juiceless and boring, frankly--we're ground into nothing before we even start out! I mean, take tattooing (which has been denied us for so long): it's beautiful, the colors are gorgeous, the images: if you have the tiger on you, you have the spirit of the tiger in you--that's something: to find out what it is to be an animal! We forget everything: we forget all of this!"