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So… how do you torture a woman? … You can pry her body away from her mind, or you can pry her mind away from her body.

To pry her body away from her mind, you need to physically humiliate her. Of course, rape is the most traditional method, but it’s not the only one, by any means. You can ridicule her body, or make fun of the things she does. You can make her self‑conscious about her looks. You can make her strap her breasts in. You can make her embarrassed about her periods. You can make her frightened of puberty, frightened of sex, frightened of aging, frightened of eating. You can terrorize her with her own body, and then she will torture herself.

~Carolyn Gage

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Minimalism

I will tell you a secret.
They can’t threaten you
with starvation, if you learn not to eat.
~Carolyn Gage

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God Only Knows

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
~Exodus 2:23-25

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Week 19

no one sees so they
mete out injury with glee —
The force is with me.

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