"It wasn't until I head Billie Holiday that I realized a voice could be a collection of compensations for things you couldn't do. It could be an ingenuity."   Patricia Lockwood

I thought a voice had to be about what you could do. It wasn't until I head Billie Holiday that I realized a voice could be a collection of compensations for things you couldn't do. It could be an ingenuity - in the same way some writers wrote books that coursed between boulders of what they couldn't do, and went faster, tumbled over, fell in rills and rushed breathingly over the stones. From Priestdaddy - Voice - by Patricia Lockwood hat tip Sabrina Orah Mark