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“You will be able to stop hurting people when you stop hurting yourself.”
― Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
― Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
“I found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life — it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.”
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
“I want to peel off all my skin, if only so I could be anything other than a naked body, something horrifying instead of vulnerable. Nobody looks at a pig corpse and thinks it could be made beautiful.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“I want to take myself apart into something else, and if I cannot do that, I want to destroy every part of it that could ever be used against me.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“it's time to be curious about what lives in the ocean of you beyond the island of other people's needs. caregiver, are you curious? what if i told you: you don't need to heal others to heal yourself. you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself. you can just love yourself. within healer and helper, there is warrior, there is priestess, there is holy whore. who knows all the things you could be?”
― Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
― Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
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