I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.― Simone de Beauvoir
What She Said, July 17: Simone de Beauvoir
What She Said, July 15: Oprah Winfrey
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. — Oprah Winfrey
What She Said, July 14: Annie Dillard
Write as if you were dying― Annie Dillard
What She Said, July 12: Anne Lamott
Your anger and damage and grief are the way to truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not to go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in– then we will be able to speak in our own voice.
― Anne Lamott
What She Said, July 11: Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
― Virginia Woolf
What She Said, July 10: Flannery O’Connor
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
― Flannery O’Connor
What She Said, June 28: Elizabeth Alexander
Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
and are we not of interest to each other?
Elizabeth Alexander
What She Said, June 27: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest…It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What She Said, June 26: Patricia Smith
I suggest that the poets don’t hide. That they scream. That they confront. That they bellow and resist.
–Patricia Smith
What She Said, June 25: Ntozake Shange
Where there is a woman there is magic.
–Ntozake Shange
The Gloria Sirens 