Claire

“If you remember nothing else of Susanna, remember how she speaks her truth. She knows it will cost her something. She's not aware yet quite how steep the cost will be, but still she speaks her truth.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“There will come a day,
when this horror is not the
only color on your palette.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“For I am a little girl when they want to belittle me, a woman when they want me to bear a child.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence