Gretta Ashurst

“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.

--from "Poem For A Birthday - The Stones", written 1959”
― Sylvia Plath, The Colossus and Other Poems

“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, If I Were a Man