“some topics simply can’t be bound in traditional ways”- Kelly McMasters
“If you’re able, naming the ways in which you were failed—the things your experience lacked—can be really, really powerful.”- Hannah Matthews“All regret is about changing the outcome, not accepting what the outcome is.”- Amy Klein
“performances of femininity, considerations of domesticity, whiteness, class aesthetics . . . so many things to dig into. ” – Petersen“there is something very important about not spending all day staring up my own asshole.”- Etter“the terror of fucking up” Dr. Elizabeth Farfan Santos “When my son was born, I was very intent on perfecting the kind of mother I didn’t have.”““Rumination is a spiral and grief comes in waves.”- Maggie Smith“I wanted to be an art monster” – Jessamine Chan Majka Burhardt ” the ability to be okay with the change and the movement” – Majka Burhardt“A love poem that would speak, even sing, to others”- Mary Beth Hines “I want my children to feel love and give love, and I want my essays to do the same thing”- Jill Christman“We change through story. To change a culture takes story. “– Rachel Louise Snyder
Brianna Avenia-Tapper 