Femme in Public Quotes

“I am sorry that the only way we have been taught to heal is to hurt.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Femme in Public

“maybe i have given up fighting for "mine"
and have settled for "not yours”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Femme in Public

“where do all of the sad girls go?

in this world that requires us
to write poems about the people who have their hands
wrapped around our necks for the very people who have
their hands wrapped around our necks to recognize
that they indeed have their hands wrapped around our
necks?”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Femme in Public