The best advice anyone ever gave me: You can never make someone's life better by agreeing to not be yourself. Denying who you are will never bring an… - Andrea Gibson

And every memory of you is a halt,

a clot where all my blood-rushing veins just stop,

and most days I can’t remember how to bleed.

SHE’S NOT ASKING WHAT YOU’RE GONNA TELL YOUR DAUGHTER. SHE’S ASKING WHAT YOU’RE GONNA TEACH YOUR SON.

Any feminist who has ever taken the high road will tell you the high road gets backed up and sometimes we need to take a detour straight through the belly of uncensored rage.