“There cannot be science without the interrogation of closely held beliefs, as well as the demolition of personal aversions and biases.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“At times, the tension between adults felt like acid on my skin—no physical wound, but burning all the same.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. TAO TE CHING”
― Witches
― Witches
“I shall not miss you, Mother. Perhaps I won’t even remember you. Does a flower remember its life as a seed? Does a phoenix recall itself as it burns anew? You will not see me again. I shall be but a shadow streaking across the sky—fleeting, speeding, and utterly gone.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Even now, after all these years, she is a memory of a memory of a memory—her own kind of unsolvable, inscrutable knot.)”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
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