Susie

“Everything we’ve gained has been hard-won by a woman who was willing to be bad in the best sense of the word.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“the fact that so many women writers are drawn to fairy-tale material is also part of a long and honorable historic tradition: folk tales and magical tales (like other largely anonymous arts) have long been associated with women. As Alison Lurie has pointed out (in her essay “Once Upon a Time”): “Throughout Europe (except in Ireland), the storytellers from whom the Grimm Brothers and their followers collected their material were most often women; in some areas they were all women. For hundreds of years, while written literature was almost exclusively the province of men, these tales were being invented and passed on orally by women.” For centuries, fairy tales have been the voice of disenfranchised populations: not only women, but also the old, the poor, and social outcasts (such as the Gypsies—famed throughout the world for their wealth of magical tales). Fairy tales speak covertly, symbolically, about the hard realities of life; and these symbols are proving as potent to artists today as in centuries past.”
― Ellen Datlow, Silver Birch, Blood Moon

“A hunch is a deduction your subconscious has made from evidence you don't yet know you have.”
― Donna Andrews, The Good, the Bad, and the Emus

“a feat which is not unlike tryin’ to hold a large beach ball under water while doin’ needlepoint,”
― Robert Lynn Asprin, M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link