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Book cover for When Women Were Dragons
We spend our lives as adults making sense of the memories we carry with us from our childhoods, but we must still be beholden, always, to the facts.
Sam
…did my therapist write this line?
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Ayn Rand
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

V (formerly Eve Ensler)
“...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.”
Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

Kate Chopin
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Audre Lorde
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sylvia Plath
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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