Hope

“If my mother gave me language, my father gave me magic.”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? —Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“You can be a drunk. You can be a survivor of abuse. You can be an ex-con. You can be a homeless person. You can lose all your money or your job or a husband or a wife, or the worst thing imaginable, a child. You can lose your marbles. You can be standing inside your own failure, a small sad stone in your throat, and still you are beautiful, your story is worth hearing, because you--you rare and phenomenal misfit--are the only one in the world who can tell the story the way that only you can.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Misfit's Manifesto

“These hushed years. These secrets of the body. To whom did they belong first. I want to find where it began and say, I'm here now, listening. I want to reach through the years and tell the women I've been lonely.”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls