Julie Davis

“It's easy to be angry
about how much hope there is
in reaching
The whole house gone
& so many little monuments
to the wrong thing”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

“A tree is strong But the wind is stronger A stone is strong But the sea is stronger The sun is strong But sorrow is stronger”
― Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

“On some level, if not intellectual then animal, there has always been an understanding of the power of women's anger:that as an oppressed majority in the United States, women have long had within them the potential to rise up in fury, to take over a country in which they've never really been offered their fair or representative stake. Perhaps the reason that women's anger is so broadly denigrated--treated as so ugly, so alienating, and so irrational--is because we have known all along that with it came the explosive power to upturn the very systems that have sought to contain it.
What becomes clear, when we look to the past with an eye to the future, is that the discouragement of women's anger--via silencing, erasure, and repression--stems from the correct understanding of those in power that in the fury of women lies the power to change the world.”
― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning