“I kept quiet and pretended to love this womanhood that was not mine to wear”
― Womb City
― Womb City
“And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“I wish I was a man. I have no interest in being a man or a woman—I’m not one. I don’t know what ‘me’ is supposed to be”
― Womb City
― Womb City
“I wish they’d stop seeing me as a woman, and maybe then I’d be free to be what I want.”
― Womb City
― Womb City
“I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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