Best 11 quotes of Terese Marie Mailhot on MyQuotes

Each child, woman, and man should know a limit of containment. Nobody should be asked to hold more.

I can hear my aunt's voice, telling me that if my security depends on a man's words or action, I've lost sight of my power.

I didn't know if what I felt was authenticity, or a disease that would overtake me.

I was not right to want to die. I didn't want to leave my family. I liked my mind and its potential. I knew the type of burden I was. I was like my mother.

My people cultivated pain. In a way that god cultivated his garden with the foresight that he could not contain or protect the life within it. Humanity was born out of pain.

Nothing is too ugly for this world, I think. It’s just that people pretend not to see.

Romanticism requires bravery and risk.

Sometimes I know part of me is still a ghost, walking next to my mother, looking for something to make an offering to, holding her hand. Either this feeling means that part of me is dead, or that she's alive, somewhere inside of me.

Today, in front of a slew of white authors, during a fellowship, with a drink in my hand, I said that I was untouchable. There was a gasp, and maybe it was a hundred years of work for my name to arrive here, where I can name my pain so well that people are afraid of the consequences and the power.

You are such a home to me.

You've said before that I'm mercurial. I don't know. Pain feels faster than light. I react to pain, and there's too much of it.