Gripling

“I’m in a caregiver's relationship with my body, a perpetual internal gauging of wellness. My spine is Hogarth’s thermometer. I ascend and descend its rungs a hundred times a day, reading the mercury level. The same dis-ease speaks many languages. If you block one mouth, another will speak. The symptoms represent differently, and as I get older, my translation changes. The prescription changes. Must be vigilant. Must be my best nurse.”
― Jalina Mhyana

“I was very boys club, very not attached.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's Flight

“I have the nagging sense that my true friends are waiting for me, beyond college, unusual women whose ambitions are as big as their past transgressions, whose hair is piled high, dramatic like topiaries at Versailles, and who never, ever say “too much information” when you mention a sex dream you had about your father.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"