No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
NIKITA GILLWomanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
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Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.
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If you think the value of a woman is only in the curve of her hips and the shape of her breasts, you do not understand how to read beneath her jagged lines, the sacred geometry that make up her glorious heart and her beautiful mind.
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.
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There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.
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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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Learn it well. Wear your hair wild, embrace your anger and learn to wield it without fear as a sword against those who hurt you.
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You deserve someone who lets you glow in every way you need to.
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Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
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Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
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Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than yourself.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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You have belonged better in your own arms than in anyone else’s. Remember you are the softest love you will ever have.
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