Nikita Gill Quotes

Tell your daughters how you love your body.
Tell them how they must love theirs.

Tell them to be proud of every bit of themselves — from their tiger stripes to the soft flesh of their thighs,
whether there is a little of them or a lot,
whether freckles cover their face or not,
whether their curves are plentiful or slim,
whether their hair is thick, curly, straight, long or short.

Tell them how they inherited
their ancestors, souls in their smiles,
that their eyes carry countries
that breathed life into history,
that the swing of their hips
does not determine their destiny.

Tell them never to listen when bodies are critiqued.
Tell them every woman’s body is beautiful
because every woman’s soul is unique.

Which is to say, when we feel like life is overwhelming, we must remember that we’re just sparks of energy borrowing skin. That no matter how much this pain feels everlasting, this is just the temporary fabric we are in.

seek no homes in other people's chests,

CONTROL

You carry both lightning and thunder
in that space between your bones and soul.
Become the storm you are hiding from;
a hurricane does not run from the rain.

Your body is not a first aid kit for broken people and damaged souls and hearts that are too tired to fix themselves.

remind ourselves that grief may feel longer
and more poignant than happiness
but it still has an ending.

Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.

throw entire festivals in your name. invite no one but yourself. let there be choirs, let there be lanterns, let there be games, let there be cake, let there be laughter, let there be fireworks. some people make the mistake of spending their lives waiting for other people to celebrate their victories, so they never end up celebrating them at all. don’t wait for anyone to decide that you’re enough. you’ve endured every minute up until now — isn’t that just remarkable?- isn’t it?

Maybe that's why you demonised them,
turned them into monsters,

because you think monsters are easier
to understand than women who say no to you.

You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?

People aren't born sad; we make them that way.

People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.

Hunger: The Darkest Fairytale
People ask questions,
but no one asks the right questions.
Who knew 'How are you so skinny?'
instead of 'When was the last time you ate?'
could be the difference between
getting help and nearly dying

We house both masterpiece and artist in this skin.
So when you are disintegrated, trying to piece together
what is left inside you, focus on this:

You are not broken.
You are simply dissembled for a while
as the artist inside rebuilds something infinite out of you.

We are the descendants
of the wild women you forgot
We are the stories you thought
would never be taught.

They should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive.
Because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life.