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“Nobody tells you, as a child, that your initiation into womanhood might come at the price of a craving for misuse and violence; that you can protect yourself from others, but that nobody can protect you from yourself.”

Book:Things That Helped: Essays

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“The lipsticks that I own are steeped in sex and blood. In my collection, I have Lady Danger; Relentlessly Red; Good to Go. Cosmo tells me early on that the painted mouth is supposed to evoke the labia, voluptuous and slightly parted, and the names of my lipsticks bear this out: they are unequivocal. There are fast cars, dangers, and passion. There is fire, lust, anger poppies, roses, all of them packed into small, dark tubes.”

Growing Up Violence Self Awareness Mental Health Womanhood Essays In Love

Book:Things That Helped: Essays

Source: Things That Helped: Essays

“I often felt nervous passing through the hallway of my own home, and the Golden State was simply where I lived. For me, there was no California Dreaming. I just was, at the center of it all.”

Growing Up California California Dreaming Golden State

Book:Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

Source: Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

“The journey of figuring out how to get the cookies from the cookie jar is more adventurous and exciting than your parents picking you up giving it to you. Meaning- Let me fall, let me fail and let me learn mom.”

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Author:Jayden Codner

“Look at the lovely dandelions growing through a crack in the pavement. Maybe, you’re one of them. Maybe, we all are.”

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Author:Bhuwan Thapaliya

“And then I got older, and, guess what? I still never felt right inside my body. I don't think I ever will. I was kind of flamed out everywhere I went, always got a little less than what I thought I'd get. But I guess that's okay. I think maybe it's necessary to feel like you're not quite settled, or maybe for some people it's necessary.”

Growing Up Identity Anxiety Adolescence

Book:Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Source: Now Is Not the Time to Panic

“At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual.”

Growing Up Sexuality Teenager Coming Of Age Adolescence

Book:The Writing Retreat

Source: The Writing Retreat

“Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?”

Poetry Dreams

Book:The Collected Poems

Source: The Collected Poems

“Time gives me the clarity that only comes when the days and the months and the years pile up on each other so you can stand on top of it all and have an unobstructed view.”

Wisdom Growing Up Aging Getting Older

Book:You don't know what you want, do you?

Source: You don't know what you want, do you?

“הוא תמיד ציפה שהיחסים איתם ישתנו ככל שהוא יצבור חוויות, ובאמת לאחרונה הקשר ביניהם הלך והפך ליחסים בין אנשים בוגרים, בצורה שהוא לא יכול היה לדמיין קודם לכן. אבל הוא לא חשב שהוא יהיה חשוף לקצוות החדים ולמגבלות שלהם כל כך מהר וכל כך מוקדם. כמו לגלות פתאום שהעולם הוא כן שטוח ולא נשארו יותר הרפתקאות ודברים מופלאים לחקור בצד השני. במקום זה אתה רק נעלם מעבר לקצה.”

Growing Up

Book:Autoboyography

Source: Autoboyography

“Caminando en línea recta, no puede uno llegar muy lejos”

Growing Up Relfection

Book:El principito

Source: El principito

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