"i was in a dangerous mood, and i was wearing a lot of lipstick just in case i needed to leave an imprint on anything."

• meg howrey, the cranes dance

"she is ideas, feelings, urges, and memory. she has been lost and half forgotten for a long, long time. she is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak. she is the smell of good mud and the back leg of a fox. the birds which tell us secrets belong to her. she is the voice that says, 'this way, this way.'"

• clarissa pinkola estes, women who run with the wolves

". . . 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 headwood, princess diana was as mad as any other woman

"they called her witch because she knew how to heal herself."

• here we are, reflections of a god gone mad

"how long your hair has grown. you could strangle a man in it."

• catherynne m. valente, deathless