Mary: An Awakening of Terror

by Nat Cassidy

For all her grumbling, she actually loves being a woman, pains and all. She just wishes she’d been born into a world that let those pains earn a little goddamn space.

Boys usually get to keep that confidence, I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.

They will always try to condense our complexities into something simple and dismissible, because that’s what being a woman is, being too much for definitions and being defined anyway, out of fear, and my God, will we be fearless!