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Author and poet Lucy Grealy, who was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer at age nine, talks about her memoir "Autobiography of a Face", which describes how she came to terms with her disease and discovered that true beauty comes from within.
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- beauty
- writing
- cancer
- Lucy Grealy
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veronica2020 05/29/2012 01:36 PM Report
I value when she says:
"Anything that comes along and tries to tell you this is how reality works. This is how you work. This is how you work in relation to reality. So many things don't offer us the space in which to say 'No, wait a minute.' We don't even necessarily have to know exactly what the answer to the no is, but just the act of saying 'No, I have a reservation about this. It may actually be something else' is an enormous step which very few people feel allowed to make. Mostly because they don't have the language to do it; they don't posses the language of rhetoric in order to recognize when people are telling them something that is a label like beautiful or ugly. Those are labels; these are not actual things."
I think this book may be supplemented with "Truth and Beauty: A Friendship" by Ann Patchet (best friend of Lucy). In her book, Ann narrates her experiences with Lucy.
emily 10/30/2008 10:48 AM Report
great book