Esther

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
― Adrienne Rich

“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.”
― Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

“What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”
― Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems.

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.”
― Adrienne Rich