Aya Mohamed

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“One sister may internalize the message and say, “Okay, I will show you what I can do and how worthy I am” and become an overachiever and a perfectionist. The other sister may internalize this message of inferiority and give up, feeling that she can’t make the grade anyway; she becomes an underachiever or engages in some kind of lifelong self-sabotage.”
Karyl McBride, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

Bhuwan Thapaliya
“She took my morning with her. My day begins in the afternoon, and it’s always hazy.”
Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

Roxane Gay
“It's okay if most of your friends are guys, but if you champion this as a commentary on the nature of female friendships, soul search a little.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

C. JoyBell C.
“I think that the process of giving your true love to someone, mainly surrounds the act of opening a door inside that's all locked up. Behind that door lives the small child that is the real you. The small child who hurts too much and feels too much and laughs too loud and always believes... true love involves unlocking the many padlocks on that door, taking her by the hand, and guiding her to the arms of the one you've chosen to love. And I think this is why some people change forever... because they loved someone in this way, but it only hurt too much. The little one was wounded. So this is why you take her back and tell her she's better off staying inside. It is a poetic, lyrical tragedy. Some people die this way, before they ever are dead. Or maybe we don't die; maybe we live on, behind that door.”
C. JoyBell C.

“What if I had been a pebble, or a stone, or a tree or a dog! What if I had been a cloud or a drop of rain! What if I had not been born! I would have loved to be anything but a human being. To live is to suffer. You are responsible for my being here.”
Mubashar Nawaz and Khurram Shahzad

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