The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
Amanda Lovelace
Top 10 Best Quotes
“women don't endure simply because we can; no, women endure because we aren't given any other choice. - they wanted us weak but forced us to be strong.”
“ i don't wear makeup for others the same way i don't decorate my house for others. this is my home& everything i do is for me.”
“To be a woman is to be warbound, knowing all the odds are stacked against you.”
“Ready for a harsh truth? Women don’t need your validation. We already have our own.”
“if the very idea of standing up for myself frightens you so damn much then i guess the power you thought you held over ome wasn't that impressive in the first place. -fragile masculinity”
“But what if the devil is just a woman who was banished to hell to stoke the flames as punishment for standing up to him?”
“I bleed twelve weeks a year, so I know a thing or two about bloodstains.”
“you are your own lighthouse.”
“telling me not all men have bad intentions doesn't do anything to reassure me. after i walk away from you,nothing will have changed. i will still be scared to leave my house after sundown. i will still find comfort in keys resting between fingers, i will still question the intentoins of every man i know i will still wonder when i am to become a story meant to warn other people's daughters,& i will still cry when i turn on the television to find yet another man getting away with well-- what they always seem toget away with. i am not the one who has to change the way i think or the way i act. they are.”
“Curves and fat and rolls are a colossal ‘fuck you’ to the patriarchy – our accidental rebellion.”
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Book Keywords:
menstruation, strength, patriarchy, feminism, women, body-image, body, devil, makeup, hell, strong, house, woman, standing-up-for-myself, weakness, strong-women, fragile-masculinity, validation, womanhood, women-s-strength, self-worth
