Jen

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as i think Emma Goldman said, 'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.' And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Memories fade, but trauma remembers. It is stored in your body, your senses, your synapses and cells.”
― Dianne Lake, Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties