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The misfit’s journey: Writer Lidia Yuknavitch tells her story at TED2016. Posted by: Kate Torgovnick May

19 Feb 2016|

“You can be a drunk. You can be an abuse survivor. You can be an ex-con. You can be a homeless person,” she says. “You can lose all your money or your job or your husband or your wife or, the worst thing of all, a child. You can even lose your marbles.


“You can be standing dead center in the middle all of your failure,” she says, “and still I’m only here to tell you: you are so beautiful and your story deserves to be heard. Because you, you rare and phenomenal misfit—you new species—are the only one in the room who can tell the story the way only you would.”


To read the entire post, go to Ted Blog.