32 quotes found
“my parents Oedipal fakers”
“I just want my stories to be mine.”
“Words carry oceans on their small backs.”
“I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.”
“Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.”
“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”
“It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.”
“Leslie Marmon Silko whispers the story is long. No, longer. Longer than that even. Longer than anything. With Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath drink at the bar. Laugh the dark laughter in the dark ligh...”
“But more often there are regular people in the pool. Beautiful women seniors doing water aerobics - mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers - their massive breasts and guts reminding you ho...”
“Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isnt it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.”
“I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldnt let me. Some d...”
“We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.”
“Language is a metaphor for experience. Its as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memorybut we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.”
“Shes thinking about grief and trauma, how they can hide out inside a woman, how they can come back.The playwright follows her eyes, until he sees what she sees.The photographers framed image, the o...”
“is a way for anger to come out as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage. When I watch Andy work the heavy bag, or ...”
“What she thinks and feels is this: This is a world of men. They come into your country, they invade your home, they kill your family. They turn your body into the battlefield the territory of all ...”
“You see it is important to understand how damaged people dont always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. Its a shame we carry. The shame of want...”
“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescencejust getting through to the real part of your lifebut it's more tha...”
“I didnt know yet how wanting to die could be a bloodsong in your body that lives with you your whole life. I didnt know then how deeply my mothers song had swum into my sister and into me. I didnt ...”
“Through the doorway to choice and hope were the saddest girls I have ever met. Not because someone beat them or because someone molested them or because they were poor or pregnant or even because t...”
“there is no girl we are not always already making into a woman from the moment she is born making a city in the dirt next to the boot of a man. It could be rage or love in his feet. The girl could...”
