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January 10 to 11, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

Fairytales: The King and His Daughter, At the Foot of Ararat, Martiros Saryan, 1904. from Peintres Armeniens (19th - 20th centuries). More.

But women still feel the need to say that violence is not the answer. And yet, if men were to fear having their dicks slashed to pieces with a carpet knife should they try to force a woman, they would soon become much better at controlling their ‘masculine’ urges, and understanding that ‘no’ means ‘no’.

– Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory

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“…the older I get, the more I see how women are described as having gone mad, when what they’ve actually become is knowledgeable and powerful and fucking furious.”

— Sophie Heawood (via brosetta-stone)

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valerie and her week of wonders (1970)

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birthed into the flames of girlhood,

you were always taught docility, softness —

pliability —

to let honey drip from the corners of your mouth at the end of every sentence.

you’re told to keep your opinions to yourself.

// bite your tongue in two so long as you don’t make a sound //

but god, aren’t you so full up of rage?;

the kind of anger that draws salt up

through the soil into bloodied pillars.

your hands tremble with it,

blood singing armageddon through your veins.

stars colliding in your chest.

don't you think it's about time you stop being nice?

your jaw opens vicious. closes —

don't you think it's time you stop holding back a scream?

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when anne carson said “what are we made of but hunger and rage?” and when anne carson said “i do not want to be a person. i want to be unbearable.” and when anne carson said “i am talking about evil. it blooms. it eats. it grins.” and when anne carson said “revenge is a form of desire.” and when anne carson said “to feel anything deranges you.” and when anne carson said “why does tragedy exist? because you are full of rage. why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief.” and when anne carson said

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Anger was her element. Her other was shyness. She could barely control the torments caused by embarrassment. She would blush to the roots of her hair. She would hauntingly walk to her execution, livid with disdain. Had she raised her cast down green eyes, she would have appeared like Medusa.

Asya Tsvetaeva, on Marina Tsvetaeva, featured in “A Life in Poems,”

“What would it mean to ungender our emotions? What would the world look like if all of us were allowed to experience and productively express the full range of our emotions without penalty? What if girls and women were not so often and effectively cut off from this particular emotion as a function of being feminine? What do we lose, personally and as a society, by not listening to women’s anger or respecting it when it does have a voice? And, importantly, how does our treatment of women’s “anger-free emotionality” relate to democracy and put us at risk of authoritarianism?”

Soraya Chemaly - Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

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“Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage. It is rational thought and irrational pain.”

Soraya Chemaly - Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

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