Amanda

“you are able to recognize the divine within, it can in turn improve your relationship with deities and other spiritual beings. You will see them mirrored in yourself and vice versa. Recognition dispels unhealthy myths and allows you to grow in new ways. This is why it’s so important for folks to be able to see images of divinity that reflect their own gender, skin color, sexuality, and other defining characteristics. Representation matters because it allows you to find the divine within.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body

“The fatigue you feel with fibromyalgia goes way beyond just being tired. It’s as if your body is an old cell phone or battery that can only charge 10 percent but tells you it’s at 100 percent. You just don’t have normal energy levels, and what you do have runs out quickly.”
― Tami Stackelhouse, Take Back Your Life: Find Hope and Freedom from Fibromyalgia Symptoms and Pain

“Philosophies that chastise the disempowered for using tactics that are unpleasant are an instrumental part of the system which seeks to suppress all displays of opposition, not just those that are violent or dangerous.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, The New Aradia: A Witch's Handbook to Magical Resistance

“The witch as a figure is so queer. In the 1800s the word queer meant “to spoil, to ruin.” The witch dissolves the boundaries of what we think we know, shapeshifts and challenges our perceptions—for instance, the idea that there are just two genders.”
― Lorraine Monteagut, Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color