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I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It…
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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you…
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I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they…
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us.…
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The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb.…
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You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back…
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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark,…
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that…
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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,…
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour…
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Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of…
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Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was…
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