When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
The only big weapon anyone has against you is that you__e human. Fucked-up, a bit. Imperfect, yes. In this, you are like every great human who has ever lived, male and female alike. If you__e slutty, well, Mary Wollstonecraft was pretty slutty. If you__e needy, my God, Charlotte Brontë__ needs could devour a person alive. If you__e mean, or self-destructive, or crazy, I assure you, Billie Holiday managed to record __trange Fruit_ while being spectacularly self-destructive, and Sylvia Plath wrote Ariel while being both crazy and very, very mean. The world is still better with those works in it. Humanity is still lucky that those particular women existed, and that, despite their deep flaws and abudance of raw humanity, they stood up and said what they had to say.
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The only big weapon anyone has against you is that you__e human. Fucked-up, a bit. Imperfect, yes. In this, you are like every great human who has ever lived, male and female alike. If you__e slutty, well, Mary Wollstonecraft was pretty slutty. If you__e needy, my God, Charlotte Brontë__ needs could devour a person alive. If you__e mean, or self-destructive, or crazy, I assure you, Billie Holiday managed to record __trange Fruit_ while being spectacularly self-destructive, and Sylvia Plath wrote Ariel while being both crazy and very, very mean. The world is still better with those works in it. Humanity is still lucky that those particular women existed, and that, despite their deep flaws and abudance of raw humanity, they stood up and said what they had to say.
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