“However, the truest solitude is not something outside you, not an absence of men or of sound around you; it is an abyss opening up in the center of your own soul.”
— Thomas Merton
@slavestephanie1@MsMichelle_Lacy I feel this post so strongly. I’m going through gender integration in my 30’s in a conservative area with a whole American Dream family. I just want to be loved for me.
“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”
- McKellen reciting Vonnegut