Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course,…

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We wer…

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are w…

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside mean…

- Hilary Thayer Hamann

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

- Hilary Thayer Hamann