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“I came up feeling washed clean. Well, I’ll just say it—spiritually. The fear was intense but the leap was renewing. I felt buoyant—oxygenated. When I walked out of the water, I shed a skin there.”
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Kris Spisak
“Some speak of witches like brutes who go bump in the night, yet some tales are much bigger than a single fright. In fact, some famous witches arguably aren't witches at all. They are merely characters so difficult to define that no better word describes them. So, witches they become, and they are branded in the public mind ever after.”
Kris Spisak, Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods

Clare Hunter
“There is camaraderie in sewing. With heads bent over stitching, confidences are more readily shared and topics can become more intimate. The pooling of equipment – scissors, threads, needles – necessitates small physical interactions that break down social barriers. Technical problems are communally solved, collective skill and achievement applauded.”
Clare Hunter, Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

Clare Hunter
“In the sixteenth century, the needle held a number of symbolic meanings. It was thought to be synonymous with breath, the rhythm it produced being analogous to that of breathing. It also signified an arrow piercing a target or a gateway through which one could pass between the underworld, the temporal universe and the celestial heavens.”
Clare Hunter, Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

Kris Spisak
“Conversely, bold arrogance is not the same as bravery.”
Kris Spisak, Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods

Clare Hunter
“For Mary, living in an environment of surveillance and suspicion, with visitors monitored and conversations reported on, and where her correspondence was intercepted and read, verbal and written forms of communication had to be guarded, even when encoded. Such writings, therefore, cannot be assumed to be a true reflection of her thoughts and opinions. Mary’s needlework, however, was uncensored. She”
Clare Hunter, Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

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