Sep 20, 2017
Their Songs: The Ballad of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin collaborated to create timeless pop songs during the 1970s.
Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin collaborated to create timeless pop songs during the 1970s.
Shaving pubic hair. Accepting mother’s advice. Can a woman (or a horse) own her experience of the world?
“My mother’s ‘whiteness’ is disputed, by brown and white people alike, and treated as something to interrogate.”
“A baby has two superpowers: the ability to suck productive time out of a day and the ability to bleed a wallet dry.”
“I saw that God I’d been so determined to believe in not as an absolute, but as a construct that couldn’t take a joke.”
“When will American Christians put two and two together and start acting like their Savior?”
“I wanted to finally be free from the anxiety of wondering if I would be seen as attractive, or seen at all.”
“Panic is terror distilled, a bouillon cube of anxiety for your already-rattled nervous system.”
“You tell the real estate guy it’ll be your weekend place. You tell yourself you’re going to get a lot of writing done here.”
Thirteen regenerations of one Doctor over the course of a very long, very interesting life.
My mother traded her independence for the fullness of a family, tied it to a post for the confines of marriage.
“Our anger exists to scourge the world, and to save it. Not everyone wants it saved.”
“The day I confessed to being a witch I had no idea what I was doing.”
“Alzheimer’s had been pickpocketing her of a few memories each day until finally I was just a voice she couldn’t place.”
Eddy’s lifetime of illness, and her encounters with medical therapies, poised her as an instrument of revelation.
“Once your children know that even one person detests their bones and breath, they know.”
I turned my stereo all the way down to barely audible volumes, convinced Trent Reznor’s singing was a subliminal message.
When I cut myself it wasn’t for attention. I cut to feel safe. And to stay sober.
