35 quotes found
“What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.”
“There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under ones fingernails.”
“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, Im going to die.”
“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.”
“There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails.”
“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”
“Lets be very clear about this, asshole: Ive been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me 'Calm down.' Being raped comes next, and thats a fact Im never going to fo...”
“Were not broken. Were not in the wrong bodies. Were not inadequate. Were not lesser. Were not unwanted. Were not fraudulent. Were not undesirable. Thats all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the...”
“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.”
“Were all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.”
“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: its only scary until it finally happens.”
“Its the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. Its the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. Its the process of being used, examined, explored, and thro...”
“May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot we can win.”
“Most days, Ive got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesnt bother me; whats to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that Ill die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly ...”
“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS,...”
“Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.”
“Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to...”
“All Im saying is that I want you to be happy. I dont care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I dont care if it happens with me or without me. I dont care if you use me to get there,...”
“If its convenient to love you, youre lying to someone about who you are or what you need.”
“If youre lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?”
“Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesnt kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily b...”
“My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go to find p...”
“There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in ones underwear on a beautiful summer day.”
“If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.”
