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Mannequin Pussy performing in Dublin

(photo by daisychainphotos)

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Jenny Holzer, Untitled In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive and You Were Full of Joy, 1983-85

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Young Woman With Sword by Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828-1891)

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I couldn’t stop looking at her, didn’t want to blink. She was wicked looking—shiny black hair that hung down over the curve of slender hips, drooping lashes, partly raised, no Raggedy Ann doll. The sight of her made me high. All that and her voice. It was a voice that drove out bad spirits. It was like she’d come down from another planet.

Bob Dylan on Joan Baez, Chronicles, Vol. One, 2004

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— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke featured in Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."

Franz Kafka

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Margaret Atwood, from True Stories: Poems; "True Romances," originally published in 1981

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“I am both worse and better than you thought.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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Rolf Ohst (German, b. 1952)

Amnesia, 2016

Oil on canvas

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Juneau, Alaska