“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.”
― Cheryl Strayed
What She Said, May 19: Cheryl Strayed
What She Said, May 18: Anne Lamott
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott
What She Said, May 16: Julie Anne Peters
Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.- Julie Anne Peters
What She Said, May 16: Zadie Smith
You are never stronger . . . than when you land on the other side of despair.- Zadie Smith
What She Said, May 15: Joyce Carol Oates
Keeping busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It’s also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.- Joyce Carol Oates
What She Said, May 14: Edwidge Danticat
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously . . . no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
– Edwidge Danticat
What She Said, May 13: Anais Nin
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than create it herself.
– Anais Nin
What She Said, May 12: Katherine Riegel
Our private and beautiful body parts/ should be renamed. There should be as many/ ways to describe them as there are seashells.
– Katherine Riegel
What She Said, May 11: Susan Lilley
Bring forth the furious goddess with no fucks to give. We are waiting. In the meantime, we’ll do the job ourselves.
~ Susan Lilley
To Mask, or Not to Mask?
This made me wonder if, at some point, we’re going to become a society of “the masked vs. the unmasked.” If so, how will we be viewed? Will the masked be applauded? Ostracized? And will the opposite happen to the unmasked? Which way is society going to go?
The Gloria Sirens 