Ruth Harris Quotes & Sayings

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

They called it The Lullaby Room. — Ruth Harris

I'm not paying to have my head shrunk. I'm so interesting they ought to pay me. — Ruth Harris

Just because I'm hungry doesn't mean I'm going to fall in love with a hamburger. — Ruth Harris

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

He preferred being stimulated to being bored. — Ruth Harris

Great minds work in similar directions. — Ruth Harris

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