Patricia

“Memory is so subjective. We all remember in a visceral, emotional way, and so even if we agree on the facts—what was said, what happened where and when—what we take away and store from a moment, what we feel about it, can vary radically.”
― Alan Cumming, Not My Father's Son

“You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.”
― Alan Cumming, Not My Father's Son

“I cried for my granny and my mum and every working-class woman who had sacrificed like them and been denied proper closure and emotional balm because they had slipped through the system, no, had been failed by the system, and hadn’t the means to do so. I”
― Alan Cumming, Not My Father's Son

“really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able”
― Alan Cumming, Not My Father's Son