I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share
the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
“...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.” — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the bits of conversation I recall, the meanings hidden in childhood only become clear now that I write them down.… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
“I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
