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"All women," she said, dropping the dead leaves into a small plastic bag, "are born with a bit of bruja in them, for protection."

We can do hard things, like be alive and love deep and lose it all… The Ache is not a flaw. The Ache is our meeting place. It’s the clubhouse of the brave. All the lovers are there. It is where you go alone to meet the world. The Ache is love. The Ache was never warning me: This ends, so leave. She was saying: This ends, so stay.

I’ve seen what happens out in the world and inside our relationships when women stay numb, obedient, quiet, and small. Selfless women make for an efficient society but not a beautiful, true, or just one. When women lose themselves, the world loses its way…What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done.