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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

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“Only what is below you tries to pull you down.”

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“No sugared association is stronger than that between sweetness and femininity. Girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Women are honey, sweetheart, cupcake, candy girl, honey-bunch--- or they're tarts. In the Bible, "The lips of an adulterous woman drip honey" (Proverbs 5:3). Meanwhile, black women have been "caramel," "brown sugar," "mocha latte," "chocolate," and "molasses,"--- both desired and diminished. Making sweet foods is considered women's work--- and eating them is too. Girls receive an Easy-Bake Oven; cake mixes are marketed exclusively to women; home bakers are overwhelmingly female. Candy and chocolate are heavily feminized that a Yorkie bar in the U.K.--- normal chocolate, massive chunks--- until recently stood out by marketing itself as "not for girls." It's not just in American and European food cultures that this holds true. I spoke to food writer and journalist Mayukh Sen about the gendering of foods within Bengali cuisine. "Sweetness is very much gendered female in Bengali cooking," he explained. "There's a word, mishti, that stands for both Bengali sweets and is also used to describe someone, usually a woman, who is 'sweet' (pleasant, youthful, and nonthreatening/demure)." In Japan, amato and karato refer to those who love sweets and those who prefer salty, savory, and spicy foods, respectively, and yet these labels loosely trace the dividing line between men and women. Jon D. Holtzman writes that a Kyoto-based confectioner--- by all accounts a man who loved his sweets--- assured him that he was more a karato kind of guy: "strong, energetic, and ambitious.”

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“Collaboration isn’t about pretending while stealing ideas, ghosting, or one-upping. Too many ‘supportive’ women’s spaces are just ego playgrounds. This is about writing, business, mentorship, integrity, and real women lifting each other, not stepping on backs. If you call it collaboration, then do it. Stop hiding behind smiles and hashtags. Lift, share, create, or step the hell aside. We’re not here to feed YOUR ego. We’re here to build something real.”

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“The curse on Satan was that his representative (the serpent) would physically crawl on the earth, but the greater curse was enmity between Satan and the woman. She will have an offspring who will defeat him (most importantly, his power) permanently. So, it stands to reason that Satan wants to get every culture to oppress women because she is his mortal enemy according to God. Man is also Satan’s enemy, but there is a peculiar emphasis on the enmity between Satan and woman. I think this is worth noting and returning to as we will see the mind-bending, horrific assaults on the shared dominion and personhood of women by not only the world, but by religious people. Satan loves power. He hates that humans were given power over the earth and does all that he can to usurp it. His first move against humans was to tempt them to sin and I believe his second move was to displace the woman’s co-dominion with the man.”

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“Excerpt: “… building blocks of our world-Mothers.” “Our moms are who instill the virtues and vices within each of us.” “Women are like teabags, they show their true colors when put in hot water.” “In spite of all the mishandling, they strive and survive and manage to stand tall.” “Be a Diva in charge of your own life and ignore those who hold you back; they don’t live your life.” “Divorce might make you lose a few ‘friends’ but it will help you find your ‘life’!”

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“Mine was the kind of apartment filled with scented candles, where every piece of furniture has been carefully selected to be camera-ready at all times, in case a representative of the taste police from an interiors magazine were to show up unannounced; I always wanted to get top marks.”

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