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“It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches’ knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the ‘father of modern medicine,’ burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he ‘had learned from the Sorceress all he knew.’”

— Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A History of Women Healers (1973)

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“All the world is wound in us like clock-springs.”

— Sara June Woods, from “You are a Burning Planet”

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“Time is a strange and powerful beast. It has a habit of making the impossible, possible.”

— Kate Morton, The Clockmaker’s Daughter

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“I know your strength of spirit. I want you to be with me,”

— Dacia Maraini, from “Only Prostitutes Marry in May,” wr. c. August 1994 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“Extreme passivity has its own power.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir,” wr. c. 2011 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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The Witch (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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“I am Lilith, the unmarried, Whom three strong angels could not haul Back to Eden. Let Adam howl like a whipped child, The loss was my loss I kneel upon the bank, and take my hair down Weeping like a woman, Let exiles and altarless men worship me As night without stars. I spread my hair over them.”

— Allen Grossman, Lilith