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“Thecla is my personal hero, but if you, like me, have never managed to immediately switch into Krav Maga mode the moment you’re groped on the subway, just know the rage that surfaces at the boundary that was crossed, the rage that surfaces when you encounter someone acting from their Ignorance and their blindness from the power of Forgetting, the rage that surfaces within you is proof of love’s presence. There’s a universe of love within you, and glorious rage flares loudly when someone behaves as if the body is flesh only and not also a portal.”
― Meggan Watterson, The Girl Who Baptized Herself: How a Lost Scripture About a Saint Named Thecla Reveals the Power of Knowing Our Worth