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Woman Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's…
- I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked…
- But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women…
- Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting…
- Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a…
- You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how…
- Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they…
- This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the…
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