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Of all flowers: you

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"It's funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, 'I want to go home.' But then you come home, and of course it's not the same. You can't live with it, you can't live away from it. And it seems like from then on there's always this yearning for some place that doesn't exist. I felt that. Still do. I'm never completely at home anywhere."

— Danzy Senna

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You will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.

- James Baldwin

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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

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“Women and monsters have a lot in common”

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"Whether we turn our daughters into vampires, poltergeists, or something else entirely, we persist in finding something corrupt and horrifying and numinous in female puberty. A little girl is less a person than she is a portal. At any moment, she can crack open and something else can come slithering through."

Sady Doyle

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Women and monsters have a lot in common [...]. They are both outcasts; alienated, derided and feared by society. They are biological freaks with bodies that transgress and fluctuate, and they are both threats to male power.

The Harpy, Ellie Wriglesworth

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The day the villain tells his story, he won’t be villain anymore

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The mother's injuries are handed down to the daughter. the mother's failures are paid for by the daughter. the mother's unhappiness will be the daughter's unhappiness. it's as if the umbilical cord had never been cut. is that true? is the daughter's misfortune the mother's triumph? is my grief your secret pleasure?

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If you commit to loving someone then there is no way to avoid being hurt, or hurting them.

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I dont know if we can share our substack here.

But here we go!

My first article on substack.

About the queen without a crown or a fortress, who ruled the battlefield from a Peepal tree.

The Woman in the Peepal Tree

The forgotten story of Uda Devi, the dalit warrior who turned peepal tree into a sniper’s nest during the Revolt of 1857

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I know that I have died before- once in November, once in June. How strange to choose June again.

Anne Sexton

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At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The more you grow older, the anger towards your mother slowly transforms into grief and guilt when her sufferings becomes clearer and it is the worst feeling in the world to know you were a part of causing it too.

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