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I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
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“Because of the violence that has been at work in my family for generations, I can't name one relative who believes that he or she is loveable, worthy of kindness, deserving of care, attention, gentleness. This is what violence does; it squeezes us down into creatures we are not meant to be, so self-loathing and fearful that it hurts too much to hope, constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, for things to begin badly, or end badly. Moments of joy and pleasure regarded with suspicion.”
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
“I am stubbornly proud of my sexuality. To anyone who has looked down on me from a moral high ground , I say, "I am not a lady. Never have been, don't care to be." I have flirted unabashedly. I've been hungry and demanding; I've told more than a few lovers how to pleasure me in no uncertain terms.”
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
“She returns to the confines of Her body. The circle dance is dizzying. Her body is no stranger to injury and has proven to be strong beyond any reasonable expectation, but this is not the heart of the matter.”
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
“Disconnecting from my young self was a way of putting distance between the tragedy of those years and a future that seemed inaccessible.”
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
“I had become a girl, then a woman, living in shadow, who could not bear the weight of her own heart - my heart, sunk as stone, silt cradled at the bottom of a lake.
It was easy to live in that place for all those years. I had eroticized myself as unbreakable: beyond the reach of any lover I lay with, protected. Fiercely independent, I was a girl who could accelerate from 0 to 140 in ten seconds flat, a good-time girl who left them wanting more.
When I started to want more for myself, when that lake became too murky to navigate, I wrestled with the big lie that had become the bedrock of my gender, my desire, my whole self: I am unbreakable. I am not broken.”
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
It was easy to live in that place for all those years. I had eroticized myself as unbreakable: beyond the reach of any lover I lay with, protected. Fiercely independent, I was a girl who could accelerate from 0 to 140 in ten seconds flat, a good-time girl who left them wanting more.
When I started to want more for myself, when that lake became too murky to navigate, I wrestled with the big lie that had become the bedrock of my gender, my desire, my whole self: I am unbreakable. I am not broken.”
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
“The part of me that is untouchable today should never have been touched.”
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
― I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
