She didn't care if he was telling the truth. Milly felt nothing but she was very good at making men think otherwise. Sometimes, she nearly convinced herself.
Just because you survive something does not mean you are strong. The
I'm a bad man.
I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all.
We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.
To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance,
There would always be ransoms for any dignity or peace.
Often in literary criticism, writers are told that a character isn't likable, as if a character's likability is directly proportional to the quality of a novel's writing.
Mine is not a success story. Mine is, simply, a true story.
I realized that weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.
I knew how to make sense of complicated things, as long as they had nothing to do with me.
People tend to assume that everyone moves through the world the way they do.
The past is written on my body.
The older we get, the more labels and categories we collect
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face...
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as m...
If you cannot recognize your privilege, you have a lot of work to do
Am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return.
When you can't find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example.
What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice.