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“As always in myth, women win their fame by dying.”
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“What was it like for the sirens on their lonely rock, watching everyone who tried to love them drown?”
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“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.”
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“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.”
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
Inside each of us, another animal, sleeping.”
― Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
Spirits: A Drunken Dive into Myths and Legends
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and lore--and this is where we discuss the books that inspire us! Every episode, co-hosts Julia ...more
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