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Kathy’s Quotes

“The family coil so twisted, tight and loose
anyone trying to leave
has to strafe the field
burn the premises down”
― Adrienne Rich, Your Native Land, Your Life

tags: challenges, dysfunction, dysfunctional-families, family, poem, poetry

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“You must endure and not be broken-hearted.”
― Homer, The Iliad

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“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: darkness, happiness, omelas, unknown, walk-away

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“I carry within me
the heart of a warrior,
the mind of a pharaoh,
the soul of a goddess
and the wisdom of
my grandmothers'
grandmothers.”
― grace gegenheimer

tags: ancestors, empowered, goddess, grandmother, strong-woman, warrior, woman, womanhood

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“Then in anger divine Aphrodite addressed her: “Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest I drop you in anger, and hate you as much as I now terribly love you, and devise painful hostilities, and you are caught in the middle of both, Trojans and Danaans, and are destroyed by an evil fate.” So she spoke; and Helen born of Zeus was frightened; and”
― Homer, The Iliad

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