It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.
That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah. "
I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.
I was re-experiencing these things that happened a long time ago, and I'm trying to relive it now, and I'm bringing all of my current motivations and personality into that which were not there at the time. It's hard to remember exactly who I was when I was ten, fifteen.
I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened. " That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.
I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.
When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?