S/HeThis brave memoir chronicles Pratt’s struggle to overcome the repressive traditions of Southern womanhood and live her life honestly. It chronicles her youth, her marriage, her eventual decision to come out as a lesbian, and her life with transgendered activist and author Leslie Feinberg. Minnie Bruce Prattis the author ofWe Say We Love Each Other,Rebellion,Crime Against Nature,Walking Back Up Depot Street, andThe Dirt We Ate. |
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Page 78
... voice - mail , your message left at 10:00 P.M. At the end , your voice breaks again and again on the first syllable : " Baby , baby , do you still love me ? " Lonely here , with the loneliness of years , I am reassured by that one ...
... voice - mail , your message left at 10:00 P.M. At the end , your voice breaks again and again on the first syllable : " Baby , baby , do you still love me ? " Lonely here , with the loneliness of years , I am reassured by that one ...
Page 132
... voice says : What silly shoes to wear in a blizzard . Just like a woman . When I was dressing for the evening , I'd heard a voice echo from the day before . I'd walked into a women's bookstore , out of torrential rain , in my waterproof ...
... voice says : What silly shoes to wear in a blizzard . Just like a woman . When I was dressing for the evening , I'd heard a voice echo from the day before . I'd walked into a women's bookstore , out of torrential rain , in my waterproof ...
Page 188
... voices of women I heard screaming . My voice screaming . I thought I would mad when my children were taken . I thought they would die without me and I without them . Where was the land where they could be with me , where women , men ...
... voices of women I heard screaming . My voice screaming . I thought I would mad when my children were taken . I thought they would die without me and I without them . Where was the land where they could be with me , where women , men ...
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