3 Quotes & Sayings By Rachel Sontag

Rachel Sontag is an award-winning journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author of bestselling books. Her books include The Volcano Lover; The Way We Eat; AIDS & Co.; Illness as Metaphor; On Photography; On Beauty; The Benefactor; Regarding the Pain of Others; and Against Interpretation. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar, Self, GQ, Rolling Stone, Essence, Glamour, Vogue and Elle. Her work has been adapted for film (The Volcano Lover), television (A Woman Called Golda), and opera (On Beauty) Read more

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A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt. Rachel Sontag
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I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone. Rachel Sontag