Caitlin

“Couldn’t conceive
of a woman with power
so they rewrote me without it,
stripped me of my titles
and made me walk through fire
to reclaim them,
wrote me wounded
and then twisted the knife.
Which version came first?
Which version matters?
You want to know
what happened to me?
I was a girl.
Now I am a god.”
― Trista Mateer, Persephone Made Me Do It

“Look at you,
taking care of everyone but yourself,
letting love make you hollow,
instead of full.”
― Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

“to dream of pomegranate and honey, to kiss the mirror with lipstick on, to stop and smell the roses, to take a punch, to knock some teeth out, to sneak into your mother’s room and try on her perfume, to run away from home, to be reborn, to be abandoned, to steal into God’s garden and strip the trees bare, to thirst for knowledge, to look for more, to want and want and want and want, to become something else, to cocoon, to transform, to miss a home you can never return to, to return anyway, to shower with the lights off, to be indelicate and deliberate, to kick, to scream, to bleed, to be, to hold hands with yourself, to outgrow every box they put you in, to get knocked down and then get up again and again and again and again and again and”
― Trista Mateer, Persephone Made Me Do It

“It is natural and interesting to me to blend feminism and femininity: Learning the art of the tease while holding dear the value of self-worth right alongside it.”
― Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela: A Memoir