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“Before Lamia killed children, her children were killed. The root of her violence, like the root of so much violence, is grief.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

tags: child-death, grief, lamia, monsters, mythology, women

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“What was it like for the sirens on their lonely rock, watching everyone who tried to love them drown?”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

tags: feminism, mythology, sirens

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“Beauty is demonstrably a cheat code for a slightly easier life. People just a little more likely to do you a favor, love just a little easier to access, the world just a little more welcoming.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

tags: beauty, feminism, love

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“For double X humans, our motley nature is usually less obvious, but we are genetic calicos. Every cell hosting a dormant sister. Every cell with the echo of what it could've been.

Inside each of us, another animal, sleeping.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

tags: calico, cells, genes, genetics, women

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“The harpy wants to win, which means a man must lose. She wants justice, which means a man must be punished. She wants space that could be taken by a man. Are we really willing to make that sacrifice?

What makes a woman's ambition predatory, we are told, is that it overflows its natural bounds. It treads on the lands that men have marked as theirs.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

tags: ambition, feminism, harpy, mythology, sexism

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