“That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be both beautiful and in open need, to be damaged.”
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“I call high altitude induced hormone damage ‘Mauna-Pause’ as Mauna means mountain in Hawaii.”
“The root cause of my brain damage is in professional astronomy.”
“It is easy to remove a weevil from a grain, but hard to reverse the damage it does.”