“You are not too much. You have never been too much. You will never be too much. The very idea is preposterous.… — Jeanette LeBlanc Daughters Copy Share Image
“We are not meant to live in isolation. Not in nuclear families or bubbled existence. The richness of life is found in… — Jeanette LeBlanc Alone Copy Share Image
“Never get too attached to the first draft of anything – this includes writing, art, homes, love. You will revise and revise… — Jeanette LeBlanc Art Copy Share Image
“There is not enough air in the room but you are breathing. There is nobody here but you are held. You have… — Jeanette LeBlanc Breaking Copy Share Image
“I wonder now, is there is a word for strength leaving your body? Or love? What of its arrival? Or is it… — Jeanette LeBlanc Body Copy Share Image
“Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings can hurt like fucking hell. But still,… — Jeanette LeBlanc Butterflies Copy Share Image
“If you feel like this time you won’t survive the pain, remember that you will. You may not like it. There may… — Jeanette LeBlanc Jeanette-leblanc Copy Share Image
“Stay more loyal to your own life (and the day by day living of it) than you are to the grief of… — Jeanette LeBlanc Day by day Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not… — Jeanette LeBlanc Jeanette-leblanc Copy Share Image
“We are here to love hard and true. Here to give ourselves over to the rush and bliss of it all. Here… — Jeanette LeBlanc Feel Copy Share Image
“Because in our pain we must find each other – mirror to mirror the grace of our shared humanity, the stunningly broken… — Jeanette LeBlanc Alone Copy Share Image
“Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy. But darling, you were not brought… — Jeanette LeBlanc Boundary Copy Share Image
“I know the hard ground and the taste of the salt water I’m made of and the way even getting out of… — Jeanette LeBlanc Bargaining Copy Share Image
“The less I know – the more the world opens up, wide and waiting. This is how I have come to understand… — Jeanette LeBlanc Freedom Copy Share Image
“To know the hope and the struggle and the stay still and the run away and the come here and the push… — Jeanette LeBlanc Hope Copy Share Image
“Even at the farthest reaches of empathy, we do not and cannot share the lived experience of another. We can never fully… — Jeanette LeBlanc Betrayal Copy Share Image
“I’ll take a hard truth over a gentle lie, every single time. I write to make peace with reality and to make… — Jeanette LeBlanc Belief in self Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Blank page Copy Share Image
“A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it. If you… — Jeanette LeBlanc Circles Copy Share Image
“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire… — Jeanette LeBlanc Ancestry Copy Share Image
“Just look at you. Heart broken but still beating. Arms empty but still open. Face raised to the sky and giving thanks… — Jeanette LeBlanc Beauty Copy Share Image
“You own your body. You own your body. You own your body. Your center and your edges are yours and yours alone.… — Jeanette LeBlanc Body Copy Share Image
“Magic isn’t about make-believe, after all. It’s just about suspending your own disbelief sufficiently to see the wonder that exists inside each… — Jeanette LeBlanc Disbelief Copy Share Image
“This is the way of lovers, isn’t it - to overqualify their experience? Who, in the midst of rush and longing, thinks,… — Jeanette LeBlanc Falling in love Copy Share Image
“You will quite likely encounter the notion that we create our own reality. This can be an empowering idea and also true… — Jeanette LeBlanc Daughters Copy Share Image
