Andrea D

“I read once that women are more likely than men to cry when they are angry. I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“[i]νυκτὸς ἐρεμαίης ἀλαώπιδος...[/i]

Of night, the lonely, with her sightless eyes.”
― Empedocles, The Fragments of Empedocles

“I know trauma uses silence as a survival mechanism.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“We were both getting what we needed, though I could have done without him. It turned out he could not do without me. He likened his relationship with me to Icarus. He was Icarus and I was the sun. Lines like these, which I wholly believed and still do, made me sick to my stomach. What kind of a girl wants to be a sun over a country she doesn’t even want to visit.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal