‘Quand les hommes ne peuvent changer les choses, ils changent les mots.’ –Jean Jaurès
A few weeks ago, a woman asked me for advice about her teenage daughter. “She wants to be a writer,” the mother said. “What should we be doing?” (…)
First of all, let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do. (…)
Let her be lonely. Let her believe that no one in the world truly understands her. Give her the freedom to fall in love with the wrong person, to lose her heart, to have it smashed and abused and broken.
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photo { Thatcher Keats }
