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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

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“Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dæmon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.”

“Don’t you find that it … hurts, not letting even half of your emotions out? I see you’ve overcome your hatred for your parents with that easygoing love you were born with. And in the process you started thinking about things, and you ended up taking on this docile personality - but aren’t you really more spirited and free, more spoiled, and extremely into sex?”

“Fixed ideas about emotions aren’t a scientific truth, but just conventional wisdom. The problem is when people get caught up in them. Fixed ideas are bound up with particular feelings, so they make it look like there’s nothing there but an already closed door. They make you unable to see another door that you’d see wide open beside you if you’d only turn your head.”