“I never talk about this and it helps the healing process to do so. Because people out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. emotionally, I mutilated myself by feeling I'm not worthy of being loved and fucked, and being able to love and fuck at the same time. I was straining toward the reconciliation the last time we talked but the last frontier was crossed when I got the illness. At that point I had to deal with so much trauma in that part of my body and psyche. I do believe repression of that nature can cause the disease.”

Tori Amos

“she's been everybody else's girl
maybe one day she'll be her own.”

“Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.”

Tori Amos

“You say 'There's not a lot of me left anymore- just leave it alone.
But if you're by, and you have the time,
Tell the Northern Lights to keep shining -
Lately it seems like they're drowning'”

Amber Waves, Tori Amos Recommended by Shay.

“so they went
years and years
like sisters
blanket girls
always there through that and this
there's nothing we cannot ever fix.”

Bells For Her, Tori Amos

“Is it right, butterfly,
they like you better framed and dried.”

Butterfly, Tori Amos

“Blow by blow, her mind cut in sheets
Layers deep, now unraveling.”

Carbon, Tori Amos Recommended by Shay.

“Carbon - made only wants to be unmade.”

Carbon, Tori Amos Recommended by Shay.

“i've been looking for a savior
in these dirty streets
looking for a savior
beneath these dirty sheets.”

Crucify, Tori Amos

“i hurt myself today
to see if i could feel
i hurt myself you said
to try to make him feel
so i hurt myself again
to see if he'd see me
i hurt myself again
i know he never could see me.”

Hurt (introduction to Caught a Lite Sneeze), Tori Amos

“you're only popular with anorexia
so i turn myself inside out
in hope someone will see.”

Jackie's Strength, Tori Amos

“look i'm standing naked before you
don't you want more than my sex
i can scream as loud as your last one
but i can't claim innocence.”

Leather, Tori Amos

“Give me life,
Give me pain,
Give me myself again.”

Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos Recommended by Jaine.

“got a little red line
that tells you, boy
where the razor's been.”

Never Seen Blue, Tori Amos

“slaps you once in a while
and you live and love in pain.”

Only Women Bleed, Tori Amos Recommended by Tiffany.

“But what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey but I don't care
Cause sometimes I said sometimes I hear my voice and it's been
HERE silent all these years.”

Silent All These Years, Tori Amos

“She's afraid of a light in the dark.”

Spark, Tori Amos Recommended by Jaine.

“My heart is like the ocean, it gets in the way
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name.”

Take to the Sky, Tori Amos Recommended by Shay.

“mirror mirror where's the crystal palace
but i only can see myself
SKATING around the truth who i am
but i know dad the ice is getting thin.”

Winter, Tori Amos