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I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.


Emily Meade

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EMILY BRONTE To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
EMILY DICKINSON The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
EMILY DICKINSON His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon...
EMILY DICKINSON Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu...
EMILY MILLER Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ...
EMILY DICKINSON Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ...
EMILY DICKINSON A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi...
EMILY BRONTE Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's e...
EMILY CARR Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
EMILY DICKINSON Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a...
EMILY DICKINSON A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien...
EMILY DICKINSON The fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi...
EMILY DICKINSON Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential!
EMILY POST I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern sup...
EMILY POST There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...
EMILY DICKINSON He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON