I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
When you like something, you should do it all night long.
I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it. I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people. . . it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed. . . My Gods made me so.
Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.
I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. So merely changing formal religious affiliations will often not help much. On the other hand, in pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!
Poverty has strange bedfellows.