It takes considerable courage
to be alone, not settling for fuckwittage.
-Moira Egan
What She Said, May 22: Moira Egan
What She Said, May 21: Audre Lorde
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
– Audre Lorde
My Last Bikini
Once upon a time I was a new mother. It was before body positivity, before athletes and models came in all shapes and sizes (though I admit we still have a long […]
What She Said, May 20: Mary Karr
“Writing, regardless of the end result—whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed—means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.”
― Mary Karr
What She Said, May 19: Cheryl Strayed
“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 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
The Gloria Sirens 