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If I body-shame a woman, it is more a reflection of me being critical of my body, me not being able to keep up to certain standards I have, and so making sure that the women around me feel the same way.
- Rupi Kaur
#Body
#Me
#Reflection
#Way
#Women
Social media has been such a big platform for my success. But it can also be a toxic place.
- Rupi Kaur
#Big
#Media
#Place
#Social Media
#Success
My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. He's a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, he'd always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold.
- Rupi Kaur
#Dad
#Die
#Flower
#Food
#Honey
I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.
- Rupi Kaur
#Confidence
#Finally
#I Think
#Think
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.
- Rupi Kaur
#Loss
#Love
#Poetry
#Trauma
#Woman
Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.
- Rupi Kaur
#Canada
#Growing Up
#Life
#Parents
#Up
The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto us as children... it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.
- Rupi Kaur
#Children
#Healing
#Pain
#People
#Trauma
'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.
- Rupi Kaur
#Beautiful
#Best
#Me
#Smart
#Women
I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one's self-confidence. I don't even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram.
- Rupi Kaur
#Feel
#Media
#Phone
#Social Media
#Social
When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.
- Rupi Kaur
#Design
#Focus
#Possible
#Simple
#Words
I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him.
- Rupi Kaur
#Born
#Dad
#Family
#Poor
#Village
For some of my young female readers, it will be the first time they will have seen a Punjabi author be successful in the West. Because I'm dealing with topics that aren't always easily discussed, I know they will look up to me, because I would have done the same. So I just want to make sure I do right by them, wherever this takes me.
- Rupi Kaur
#Done
#First Time
#Look
#Me
#Time
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
- Rupi Kaur
#Always
#Hear
#Myself
#Powerful
#Writing
With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just so many boundaries.
- Rupi Kaur
#Culture
#Just
#Lost
#Parents
#Sacrifice
I sat with myself one day and asked, 'Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate the topics I write about and the style in which I write? Do those gatekeepers let a demographic like mine through the door?' And the answer was no.
- Rupi Kaur
#Day
#Door
#Me
#Myself
#Style
I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me... And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally.
- Rupi Kaur
#Magic
#Me
#People
#Tradition
#Why
Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.
- Rupi Kaur
#Growing Up
#Myself
#Proud
#Time
#Woman
I like B.C. because it's so beautiful, but I think Toronto's the greatest place because every corner of the world is here.
- Rupi Kaur
#Beautiful
#Corner
#Every
#Place
#World
Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.
- Rupi Kaur
#Honesty
#Myself
#Readers
#Truth
#Want
Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them.
- Rupi Kaur
#Everything
#Life
#Revolution
#Ugly
#Your
I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That's such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that's not okay.
- Rupi Kaur
#Body
#Laugh
#Relationship
#Stranger
#Way
My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.
- Rupi Kaur
#Breathing
#Changed
#Done
#Heart
#Nothing
In high school, I started saving up to get a nose job, which is so ridiculous. I had this job at Tim Hortons, and I was trying to save up $10,000 for a nose job.
- Rupi Kaur
#High School
#Job
#Nose
#School
#Trying
Just because someone tells you they love you, it doesn't mean they actually do.
- Rupi Kaur
#Just Because
#Just
#Love
#Mean
#Someone
How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?
- Rupi Kaur
#Anger
#Fix
#Love Is
#Love
#Passion
My parents didn't allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate.
- Rupi Kaur
#Cool
#Me
#Parents
#School
#Sex
Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.
- Rupi Kaur
#Beauty
#Control
#Day
#End Of The Day
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