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“This poem is not good enough because
Other women have also written poems
And, as everyone knows
There can only be one woman
Above all the others
Who has clawed and killed to get there
But maybe she doesn't have children
So
She's not good enough either
And she dies on the heap
with the rest of us”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

“Lots of people deserve to die,” said the dust-wife finally. “Not everybody deserves to be a killer.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.”
― Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe