“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.”
― My Body
― My Body
“I realized that "demon" is a subjective term, and the splitting of my identity between devil and God, between impure and pure, was something that my mum did to me, rather than the reality of my existence.”
― Woman, Eating
― Woman, Eating
“Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“Beautiful things demand touch. Hence the taped floors at art museums and the roped boundaries between paparazzi and celebrities on red carpets.”
― Chlorine
― Chlorine
“We are the unwitting carriers of our parents’ secrets, the ripples made by stones we never saw thrown.”
― The Scent Keeper
― The Scent Keeper
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