Hope

“When I think of my father, I think of my heart breaking in stages. A dull pain, then piercing. Electric. Still, somehow, gradual.”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“I'm not the story you made of me.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Misfit's Manifesto

“The British feminist Laurie Penny tweeted in July 2017, “Most of the interesting women you know are far, far angrier than you’d imagine.”
― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“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