Traci Lords > Quotes

“What was wrong with being a girl? Was it really a man’s world like my mom said? And if so, where did that leave us?”
― Traci Lords, Traci Lords: Underneath It All: A Moving Autobiography of Survival and Redemption

“My only real escape came from fantasy. I disappeared into a world of books, becoming obsessed with science fiction. I believed in other planets and races, searching the sky at night for stars, secretly hoping to be abducted and taken to a kinder planet. Maybe God had made a mistake sending me here, I thought. It was obvious I belonged somewhere else. Here I questioned everything and nothing ever made sense.”
― Traci Lords, Traci Lords: Underneath It All: A Moving Autobiography of Survival and Redemption

“I couldn’t understand what Dad was so angry about. What had we done wrong? Was it because we were girls? My mom always said he wanted a son and I wondered if things would be different if we were boys. Would that make everything better?”
― Traci Lords, Traci Lords: Underneath It All: A Moving Autobiography of Survival and Redemption