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Cinder House
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“Female. That label has never done anything for me except dictate what I can or cannot do. No going anywhere without permission. No showing too much skin. No speaking too loudly or unkindly, or at all, if the men are talking. No living my life without being constantly aware of how pleasing I am to the eye. No future except pushing out son after son for a husband”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
“I hate the way I’ve contorted myself into what people think a girl should be, ready to please, ready to serve. Yet I love the power it’s given me, a power that lies in being underestimated, in wearing assumptions as a disguise.”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
“When a woman gets pregnant, her body is suddenly everybody's business. Endless restrictions could be clamped onto her "for the good of the baby". There's no better tool of control.”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
“You can’t shoot me; I’m rich!” Yizhi slips through the opening created.”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
“When you cherish someone for how amazing they are, you don’t pluck them from their roots just to watch them wither in your hands. You help them bloom into the incredible thing they’re really meant to be.”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
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