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“You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“For a start it doesn’t much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it’s simply the fact that you’re saying it.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi