“For girls who've been pressured into sex they didn't want, growing into a woman's body can be terrifying. Anorexia and bulimia can be an attempt to say no, to assert control over their changing bodies. Compulsive overeating is another way.” — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending.… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“If You Knew What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“The Aftermath When the fierce pure pleasure has clawed through, ripped open my tent of separateness, I lay in my lover's arms, weeping and… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Dead Butterfly By Ellen Bass For months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Healing was a terrifying and painful experience and my life was as full of struggle and heartache as it had always been. Several years… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“The World Has Need Of You” everything here seems to need us —Rainer Maria Rilke I can hardly imagine it as I walk to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time? — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
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