Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was now barely…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Could she stick her hand in that sink? Did she dare put in the drain plug? Every time she moved toward it, she shrank…

— Vanessa Wolf

“Still, the baths helped ease her pain to some degree, the darkness around her, calling her closer to that day, but she knew it…

— Kristin Elyon

“She had the look of someone who'd declared herself, and seeing it, my indignation collapsed and her mutinous bath turned into something else entirely.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She looked out across the water and allowed the feeling of longing to wash over her, spill into the crevices of her soul, and…

— Elizabeth Fama

“she was disquietingly fluid—fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already…

— James Baldwin

“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess…

— Peter Trachtenberg

“Erika glides down into the warmth, the body-warm brook of shame, a bath in which one submerges cautiously because the water is rather dirty.”

— Elfriede Jelinek

“And the strange thing was: I knew that most people didn't see her as I did--if anything, found her a bit odd-looking wth her…

— Donna Tartt

“If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a…

— Shannon McKenna

“Her shame, she was certain, marked her in ways apparent to anyone who looked closely. It had grown to her like a second skin”

— Sondra Allan Carr

“so at least she could feel less singled out, less repulsed by herself, less like a spot on the world that should have been…

— Krista Ritchie