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Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl

Allison — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:00:44 +0000

We were never trying to deny our femaleness. Instead, we wanted to expand the notion of what it means to be female. The notion of “female” should be so sprawling and complex that it becomes divorced from gender itself.

The Cancer Journals

Allison — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:00:14 +0000

I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truth for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. And it was the concern and caring of all those women which give me strength and enabled me to scrutinize the essentials of my living.

Dream More

Allison — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:23:46 +0000

…happiness is your commitment to appreciating all that is good in life, big and small. It’s pretty easy to be happy when everything’s going great. But life’s not like that. It’s like one of my favorite old sayings goes, ‘If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.’

I wake up every day expecting all to be good and right. And if it’s not, I set my mind to making it so by the end of the day. You just have to figure out where the unhappiness is coming from and then set about fixing it

It’s easy to let your unhappiness sit there, jut like it’s easy to let your anger sit there. But you can’t do that. You have to feel it and fix it.