Rani

“Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many and there are forces at work that would like to withhold it from those whose stories most threaten the regimes that govern this society. Fuck them. Write your life. Let this book be a totem of permission, encouragement, proof, whatever you need it to be.”
― Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

“The more we want to exploit a body, the less humanity we allow it.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

“I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define.”
― Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

“Real trauma is like a giant hunk of scar tissue that the rest of your life accommodates, grows around. 251”
― Melissa Febos, Whip Smart: A Memoir