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“It was beyond a sexual thing. It wasn’t about lust. It was intimate. He would hold me as long as I wanted to be held.”
― The Woman in Me
― The Woman in Me
“All I wanted was to be taken away from the everyday world and into that realm where I could express myself without thinking. When I was alone with my thoughts, my mind filled with worries and fears. Music stopped the noise, made me feel confident, and took me to a pure place of expressing myself exactly as I wanted to be seen and heard. Singing took me into the presence of the divine.”
― The Woman in Me
― The Woman in Me
“There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy. But I’ve learned that lesson now, the hard way. You have to speak the thing that you’re feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.”
― The Woman in Me
― The Woman in Me
“For so long, my parents had convinced me that I was the bad one, the crazy one, and it worked completely in their favor. It hurt my spirit. They put my fire out. I undervalued myself for a decade. But inside, I was screaming about their bullshit. You have to understand the helplessness in that—the helplessness and the anger.”
― The Woman in Me
― The Woman in Me
“As I had before when I’d felt too attached to a man, I tried to convince myself in every way that it was not a big deal, that we were just having fun,”
― The Woman in Me
― The Woman in Me
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