“I was seen as an exceptionally bright but difficult child rather than one with a treatable mental illness”

“This was goodbye to the tethers of repression and approval and virtue.”

“Let myself go on and rise from violation, from something stolen from me and my body”

“you took the word lesbian off the shelf and put it on”

“I knew that the call was definitely not mine to make…”

“Liddy, you’re either going to be a scientist, a nurse, or a cold-blooded murderer.”

“These women make a stark parody of the exploitation of female sex”

“used as a tool across race and time to create — and preserve — extreme social stratification”

“Being around the people I care about makes me feel lonelier”

“pieces of boy, some soft, some hard as knotty pine…”

“You can’t be a revolutionary without educating yourself”

“My mind was wild. I told myself I just didn’t care about anything.”

“he complex glory of being wrong and learning from it”

“This Big D. Not the dick. The divorce.”

“We have to centralize those that are most marginalized in our struggles.”

“I imagine myself swaddled once again in cozy thick fabrics in front of a fireplace”

“I hadn’t danced so hard or sweat so much or laughed so loud.”

“Maybe I should cut her hair while she’s sleeping.”

“someone or something I love is separated from me”

“I hear my name and “possible gang member.””