Roxane Gay Quote
If you survive, you have to prove it was that bad; or else, they think you are.Surviving is some kind of sin, like floating up off the dunking stool like a witch. You have to be permanently écorchée, heart-on-sleeve, offering up organs and body parts like a medieval female saint.
Roxane Gay
If you survive, you have to prove it was that bad; or else, they think you are.Surviving is some kind of sin, like floating up off the dunking stool like a witch. You have to be permanently écorchée, heart-on-sleeve, offering up organs and body parts like a medieval female saint.
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