Mimi First

Mimi First, the Pocket Diva, is proof that a little bubbly can go straight to your head. When she's not heating up the Naked Girls Reading sofa, she can be found stripping off burlesque costumes in cities across North America. Her blend of fuzzy pink cuteness and white hot, well, heat is one reason why people keep flocking to see (er, hear) her read.

Whether or not she's reading alluring passages from classic literature or poorly worded advertisements for "adult services" from Craigslist, she offers a point of view that's not to be missed.

Mimi's Favorite Literary Quotes

"Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again." Anais Nin, House Of Incest

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

“I would Heaven that I were so much Clay--
As I am blood--bone--marrow, passion--feeling--
Because at least the past were past away--
And for the future--(but I write this reeling
Having got drunk exceedingly today
So that I seem to stand upon the ceiling)
I say--the future is a serious matter--
And so--for Godsake--Hock and Soda water”
Lord Byron, written on the back of the manuscript for Don Juan

“Until the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.”
William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

”The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not “taking” and the woman is not “giving.” No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn.
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

"People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors." George Eliot, Middlemarch

"The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions-there we have none." Virginia Woolf, How One Should Read a Book