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“ If I were a man, I would fight him.
If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men… She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― Nettle & Bone
If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men… She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― Nettle & Bone
“Time never stopped, though it often felt elastic.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Circe
― Circe
“We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― Nettle & Bone
― Nettle & Bone
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