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Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
Francesca Lia Block
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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
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Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.
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I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.
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My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.
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I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
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Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.
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Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
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I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.
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He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.
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It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.
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He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.
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The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.
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I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.
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You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.
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I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?
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Pain can give you sight or make you blind.
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