“I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things in your life, and if nothing in those hundred makes you satisfied, you can still go… — 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… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
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
