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“I want to wear this garment. I choose this self. Perhaps the choosing matters more than the being sure.”

Maddie Ballard, Patchwork: a sewist’s diary

“As we are setting the table, she grips my arm tightly without saying anything. She does not understand why I quit my job or left a five-year relationship. Such prospects do not come around twice, in her experience. But she's decided to accept me without understanding: my Caucasian eyes, my penchant for drinking cold water straight from the tap, my

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

“Sewing something for yourself implies belief in a future self”

Sofi Thanhauser