Katey

“Women who refuse motherhood are also faced with the prejudice that they must therefore hate children, like the witches who dined out on small roasted bodies during sabbaths or cast fatal spells on their neighbor’s child. This is doubly exasperating. First, because it is far from true in most cases: it can even be a strong sympathy with children that makes you refrain from having your own, while others may choose to have them for deeply dubious reasons.”
― Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.”
― Roman Payne

“We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.”
― Warsan Shire

“We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance,
Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast
And have conquered. We have only to conquer
Now, by suffering.”
― T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral