Thirty Years After ‘Little Earthquakes,’ I’m Finally Ready for Tori Amos
With reproductive rights under threat in the US, I returned to an artist unafraid of telling her truth.
Little Earthquakesthirty years
I cannot be pregnant.
I cannot be pregnant.
Little Earthquakes
I wanna spit in their faces, then I get afraid of what that could bring. I got a bowling ball in my stomach, I got a desert in my mouth. Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now.
no
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normal
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safe
Little Earthquakes
Hey, but I don’t care ’cause sometimes, I said sometimes I hear my voice I hear my voice, I hear my voice, and it’s been here Silent all these years.
Little Earthquakes
Kelly Hoover Greenway is a freelance writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Romper (where she was a staff lifestyle writer), Eater, and other outlets. She is also a television producer and development executive in unscripted programming. She currently lives in Austin, Texas. For a deeper dive, visit kellyhoovergreenway.com, or follow her on Twitter: @kellyhgreenway & Instagram: @onmyrocker.
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