Jamie Anderson/Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

Side Effects (2013) Dir. Steven Soderbergh

I come from a long line of people with something wrong with them

Clarice Lispector, from “That’s Where I’m Going”, Soulstorm: Stories (tr. Alexis Levitin)

shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, from a letter to Zelda Fitzgerald

“It’s easy to know who I am when I am at peace with my sadness.”

— Juansen Dizon

ANGELINA JOLIE & ELIZABETH MITCHELL Gia (1998), dir. Michael Cristofer

I AM a female villain apologist and it IS because they are sexy. that is all

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 

Dir. Woody Allen