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"This is actually the chapter title: *Oh My Gawd*: It's Full Of Stars" — Mar 04, 2014 04:57PM
"This is actually the chapter title: *Oh My Gawd*: It's Full Of Stars" — Mar 04, 2014 04:57PM
“Tell me if you ever cared,
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.”
― Lullabies
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.”
― Lullabies
“What I find most troubling is the recent expectation for sudden weight loss after pregnancy. It’s perverse that the finest compliment given to a woman who has just made a person is that she looks like she hasn’t.”
― Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
― Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
“Do as they bid you...but in your heart, remember who and what you are.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
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“What strikes me now is why did they send the boys away? Why don’t boys get educated about menstruation? Is it because the teachers think girls will be embarrassed? I feel like the secrecy of it, the action of segregating us, sends the message that we should be ashamed. That our periods are something to hide from the opposite sex.”
― Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
― Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
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