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Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
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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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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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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.
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Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?
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Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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You can't doubt so much, Psyche
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Everything is an illusion that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.
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Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
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You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.
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War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
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Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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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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You have to make your own family, your own life.
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The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.
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I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
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But be careful sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
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Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will.
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