Jen Sainty

“When man imposes his will on woman she knows how to give him the pleasure of assuming his power is greater and his will becomes her pleasure; but when the woman accomplishes this, the man never gives her a feeling of any pleasure, only of guilt for having spoken first and reversed the roles.”
― Anaïs Nin, Ladders to Fire

“I want the poem to ask something and, at its best moments, I want the question to remain unanswered.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

“I shall grow up to be a tall, graceful, and altogether beautiful woman, and I shall impose on large numbers of people my will and also, for my own amusement, great pain.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River

“Beauty is a kind of vital, ferocious burning at a soul’s center that ignites everything it touches.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January