Avi

“The psychologist Resmaa Menakem writes about the embodiment of experience passed down to us, how some memories are handed down not in the form of words but through our skin and our nervous system in ways that bypass language.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir

“Women with consumption during the nineteenth century were thought to be the epitome of beauty. They are described in books and depicted in paintings as being luminescent with their milk-white skin and red lips. This is how men saw them, anyway. The perfect woman—impossibly pale, impossibly thin, lips tinted red (from coughing up blood), too tired to speak, too weak to move. All she can do is sit and stare out the window, incandescent as life leaves her body. A woman was thought by many to have contracted consumption due to some moral failing, so while her beauty was fetishized, her character was denigrated. Fucking men.”
― Anna Marie Tendler, Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

“Parents can be our greatest allies, they can fiercely love us, but they can also be the cause of our trauma.”
― Anna Marie Tendler, Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

“Years of my own experiences with men have taught me they struggle to see women as autonomous creatures with complicated, interesting, rich inner lives. Usually, they see us only in relation to themselves.”
― Anna Marie Tendler, Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir