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Deetya Kamat
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“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“In our family, we learned to love one another for how well we were able to conform to the story they wrote for us—not as who we really are.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“The myth forces our minds to forget that which our bodies cannot: that belonging is always conditional.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
“I had once thought that I came from a line of Gods, and I had punished myself for failing to be Godlike. But we were not Gods, and I was not the avatar for our family’s unraveling. I was just another product of inherited trauma, unresolved grief, and reactive survival mechanisms, like everyone else who came before me. We were mortals who felt ashamed when we failed to appear omnipotent. Now I see that my job was to release my ancestors from this burden, to allow those who come next the freedom to be ordinary.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
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