Jen Sainty

“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

“As a carpenter can make a gibbet as well as an altar, a writer can describe the world as trivial or exquisite, as material or as idea, as senseless or as purposeful. Words are wood.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

“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

“Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses - Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters