Being able to tell the difference between when a friend is joking around about something, and when they are actually trying to talk about something really serious that they are afraid/embarrassed to let other people know about.
I would lay down in the crook of your arm and feel like I was finally somewhere that wanted to have me. I never felt more beautiful, more desired, more comfortable in my environment.
I’d like to give a big shout out to all the sidewalks for keeping me off the streets.
There’s no perfect path for your life that you have yet to uncover. You simply must “do you.” This takes endless sacrifice and a hell of a lot of heart.
We know that looks aren’t important, but we still dress a certain way for a job interview or a date. It isn’t important, but it is.
She was my waitress at some restaurant and I jokingly left her my business card, not thinking she’d actually text me.
A woman is jealous only when she has nothing, but I who am the most loved of all women, what can I be jealous of?
Just as an empty boat that rams into us isn’t targeting us, so too people who act unkindly are driven along by the unconscious force of their own wounding and pain.
Everyone thinks gay guys pursue straight guys, trying to “make” them gay. But let me tell you, I don’t pursue straight guys like that. Sometimes, it’s the straight guys who pursue us.
In second grade I discovered that body hair on women is considered undesirable in the United States.
Reading must become as natural as eating and breathing to you. It’s not something you do because you feel like it, but because it’s a reflex, a default.
Too many religious communities, the one in which I grew up included, prize–more than service to and advocacy for the oppressed–pre-marital virginity. To “lose your virginity” before your wedding day is to relegate yourself to the margins of the congregation–shame and self-loathing your near-constant companions.
One thing happened after another and by the time I was 17 I was a high school drop out living on my own, supporting myself, and living in survival mode.
