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Top 8 Melissa Faliveno Quotes (2025 Update)

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “We don’t have the tools- the language, the education, the resources – to say some things aloud, to deal in the daylight with our problems. So we keep them to ourselves, and we carry them with us.”

1. “We don’t have the tools- the language, the education, the resources – to say some things aloud, to deal in the daylight with our problems. So we keep them to ourselves, and we carry them with us.”

— Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “I felt like I was shedding a skin, like I was reemerging into the world after a long period of sleep. I felt, for perhaps the first time in my life, like my body was my own. I lived in it without shame, without being motivated by a male desire for it. I felt like I had been set free.”

2. “I felt like I was shedding a skin, like I was reemerging into the world after a long period of sleep. I felt, for perhaps the first time in my life, like my body was my own. I lived in it without shame, without being motivated by a male desire for it. I felt like I had been set free.”

— Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “Like so many of the systems in which we live, oppression is tricking the oppressed into oppressing each other.”

3. “Like so many of the systems in which we live, oppression is tricking the oppressed into oppressing each other.”

— Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “To live well is to speak one’s truth – even if that truth is just a question.”

4. “To live well is to speak one’s truth – even if that truth is just a question.”

— Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “And that night, as I watched the digitized faces of my loves halfway across the country, I knew that I would never stay in one place long. That I would remove myself from each place I went, maybe right as it started to feel like home. That I might plant myself in a plot of land just long enough for roots to take hold, then pull myself up from the earth and keep moving. Despite the pain of each new beginning, and maybe also because of it.”

5. “And that night, as I watched the digitized faces of my loves halfway across the country, I knew that I would never stay in one place long. That I would remove myself from each place I went, maybe right as it started to feel like home. That I might plant myself in a plot of land just long enough for roots to take hold, then pull myself up from the earth and keep moving. Despite the pain of each new beginning, and maybe also because of it.”

— Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “Is there anywhere that you feel like you can be your full self?” I ask. “No!” she yells, slapping the table and laughing. It’s a huge, contagious laugh, and it cuts through the noise of the bar. A few college kids look over at us. “Never! I don’t think I’ve ever been my full self anywhere. I don’t even think that’s a thing.”

6. “Is there anywhere that you feel like you can be your full self?” I ask. “No!” she yells, slapping the table and laughing. It’s a huge, contagious laugh, and it cuts through the noise of the bar. A few college kids look over at us. “Never! I don’t think I’ve ever been my full self anywhere. I don’t even think that’s a thing.”

— Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “I talk to her about my thoughts on grief as inheritance, and tell her that one of my reasons for not having children is not wanting to pass that grief along.”

7. “I talk to her about my thoughts on grief as inheritance, and tell her that one of my reasons for not having children is not wanting to pass that grief along.”

— Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno Quote: “Talking about your problems, I think, is something reserved for the upper classes, the educated classes, for families in which a life of the mind is more important than a life of work, and of the body, and of the land.”

8. “Talking about your problems, I think, is something reserved for the upper classes, the educated classes, for families in which a life of the mind is more important than a life of work, and of the body, and of the land.”

— Melissa Faliveno

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