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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: barbara-kingsolver, the-poisonwood-bible
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    Alice Walker
    “In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
    ― Alice Walker
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    Mary Oliver
    “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
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    Michel Foucault
    “I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Audre Lorde
    “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: audre-lorde, campaigning, feminism, issue, life, political-activism, struggle
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    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: hope, inevitability, spring
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    “Being a woman is hard, but I was good at it, I think is the underlying anxiety. Nobody fired me; I quit. I know I'm not trying to look pretty anymore, and I apologize to all those who have to look at me, because I used to try and I'm not enough of a man yet for it to not be a problem. I promise to work very hard to look like Victor Garber so you can look at a handsome man in three years' time minimum.”
    ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    “As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
    ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: ambiguity, certainty, humility, knowledge, policy
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    “Transition had not always been true of me, but I found that the more place I allowed it in my life, the further back it cast its roots. Whether or not the birthright had been mine to begin with or ever intended for me, I found the burden easy and the yoke light.”
    ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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    Louise Glück
    “I am suspicious of my existing ideas, my conscious thoughts and convictions. They are what I need to get beyond, into ignorance and after that, with luck, discovery.”
    ― Louise Glück
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    “My childhood was not especially useful to my adulthood, which I found bitterly disappointing.”
    ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
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    Ocean Vuong
    “To love another man is to leave no one behind to forgive me.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
    tags: inspirational, love, poetry, queer
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
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    Mary Oliver
    “May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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    Frank O'Hara
    “In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
    ― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
    tags: crisis, decisions, love, poems, poetry
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    Frank O'Hara
    “I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”
    ― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
    tags: poetry
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: anarchism, revolution
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: coming-of-age, human-nature, individuality
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: hurt, love, science-fiction
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    Louise Glück
    “We look at the world once, in childhood.
    The rest is memory”
    ― Louise Glück
    tags: adulthood, america, childhood, memory, poetry, time
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
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    Olivia Gatwood
    “I want to know
    what it means to survive
    something.
    does it just mean
    I get to keep my body?”
    ― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
    tags: violence-against-women
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    Alice Walker
    “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
    ― Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias
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    Louise Glück
    “Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.”
    ― Louise Glück
    tags: american, louise-glück, poetry, women-writers
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    Danez Smith
    “history is what it is. it knows what it did.”
    ― Danez Smith
    tags: history, poem, poetry
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    Olivia Gatwood
    “The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for.”
    ― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
    tags: privilege, violence-against-women
    23 likes



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