Quotes from Melissa Febos

Being celibate was so wonderful. It taught me a lot about love, but even more about my own self outside of love. I'd never met myself out of love before, really.

I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them.

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.

Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of love, every kind of work.

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.