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Circe
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You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.
“What is grief, but love that’s lost its object?”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Embarrassment, as it turns out, is more powerful than information. And shame is the enemy of truth.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Men, after all, delight in nothing so much as to recast themselves in the center of the story.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“And now I shall see to him. Tooth and claw. The downtrodden becomes the bearer of a heavenly, righteous flame. It burns me, even now. I find myself unbound by earth, unbound by man, unbound by wifely duty and womanly pain.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Sometimes, I feel that we are all tricked by love, and its rigid requirement of pain. We find the love of our lives and cleave to our beloved when we are still quite young and do not yet understand that we must, by our nature, die someday. In any successful marriage, one partner must face the reality of being very old, and very alone. What is grief, but love that’s lost its object?”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
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