Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
NIKITA GILLWomanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
NIKITA GILLSofter memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
NIKITA GILLBut I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
NIKITA GILLIf 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.
NIKITA GILLEveryone you love is slowly dying and if you choose not to love them right they will die without knowing.
NIKITA GILLWhat if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
NIKITA GILLHow your voice tremors when you speak of loneliness.
NIKITA GILLIn a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.
NIKITA GILLDid you really think she was a tender flower you could trample upon, and damage her very soul? She is wildfire. And she is coming to devour you whole.
NIKITA GILLWithout heartache there are no lessons to gain.
NIKITA GILLPeople are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
NIKITA GILLKnowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.
NIKITA GILLYou have belonged better in your own arms than in anyone else’s. Remember you are the softest love you will ever have.
NIKITA GILLEvery time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
NIKITA GILLThese are women made of terrible tempests and savage storms and the untamed unwanted.
NIKITA GILLI am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.
NIKITA GILL