"A woman’s first blood doesn’t come from between her legs but from biting her tongue."
— Meggie Royer, The No You Never Listened To
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"Witches are commonly depicted reading. This may not seem unusual today, however up until the eighteenth century artists rarely depicted women in the act of reading with two significant exceptions: women who are clearly studying devotional material and witches who study books of magic."
— Judika Illes, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft (via ablogwithaview)
"Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently…"
— Yoojin Grace Wuertz, from “Mother Tongue" (via weissewiese)
You have my permission
not to love me. I am
a cathedral of dead bolts
& I’d rather
burn myself down
than change the locks.— Rachel McKibbens, from “letter from my brain to my heart,” blud
“almost every woman i have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind”
— Elana Dykewomon “Notes for a Magazine"
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