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“I realized that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it.”
― What We Lose
― What We Lose
“Sorrow allows us a freedom happiness does not.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so that the world will at least be a little different for our having passed through it.”
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“He said/she said is why so many victims (or survivors, if you prefer that terminology) don’t come forward. All too often, what “he said” matters more, so we just swallow the truth. We swallow it, and more often than not, that truth turns rancid. It spreads through the body like an infection. It becomes depression or addiction or obsession or some other physical manifestation of the silence of what she would have said, needed to say, couldn’t say.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“She has learned to not let go of the
pieces of herself that she needs in order to be what someone else wants. She’s learned not to
compromise. She’s learned not to settle. She’s learned, as difficult as it is, how to be her own sun.”
― Year of Yes
pieces of herself that she needs in order to be what someone else wants. She’s learned not to
compromise. She’s learned not to settle. She’s learned, as difficult as it is, how to be her own sun.”
― Year of Yes
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