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Respectability narratives discourage us from addressing the needs of sex workers, incarcerated women, or anyone else who has had to face hard life choices. No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.
“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
― Choke
― Choke
“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
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“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Survivor
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Survivor
“If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago...”
― There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
― There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
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