Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAs you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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It is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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