“It's a movie about everything. This world we live in. The bodies we're stuck with. The lives we get whether we want them or not. How hard you have to work just to get through a fucking day without killing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
“This man was gorgeous. I'm mentioning this because women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
“We'd cry great waves of love and rage for this young woman, whose resistance made our own lives look empty as nadless ball sacks… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
“Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
“Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
“That image of Joan of Arc burning up in a fire burned inside me like a new religion. Her face skyward. Her faith muscled… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
