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The king picked hernup easier than one does a down quilt, and replaced her in her firmer relation to the chair. The exact preposition espressing this relation I do not happen to know.

George MacDonald, The Light Princess

Page 29: I am only a kid, but I know you have to believe in something to make sure you have a story in your head that explains the world.

Why shoot the light in someone's hand when you can shoot the hand, and add blood to the dark?

The Indian Commissioner banned dancing by Cherokees in 1883.

He seemed to want to get into their brains, not their pants.

I did not set the fire.
But I wasn't about to put it out once it finally began.

This town only takes the parts of my identity it ikee, ignores the rest. It's exhausting.

I know that pride values a man's reputation over a woman's life. It calls her selfish for speaking up, even when she speaks the truth. Especially then.

Maybe fear is the toll women pay to exist in this world at all.

Maybe fear is the toll women pay to exist in this world at all.

Whenever these things come up on the news, the almost immediate reaction is to downplay the situation. To find the inconsistencies. To wonder how men will be impacted if we just all start believing women when they say they've been hurt or afraid.

Sometimes I think he expected us to have the same experience he did growing up here. Which just wasn't gonna happen.

A word that makes me nothing but the object of his hatred, which means I'm nothing at all.

What is the weight of a word? Maybe it's in ink and paper. Maybe it's measured by the harm it causes. Especially the ones said out loud, in anger.

I feel like I could act stupid for that smile.

Here they label ignorance as tradition and carry on as though they've earned the right to be cruel.

I smell the roses and think of women let down be other women. Women who are told their obedience is more important than their voice, not by their husbands, but by their mothers, their friends. Women willing to watch each other get hurt for the sake of image and tradition.