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“If you look at most female archetypes—the mother, the virgin, the whore—their power comes from their relation to men. But not the Witch. The Witch derives her power from nature. She calls forth her dreams with spells and incantations. With poetry. And I think that’s why we are frightened of them. What’s scarier to the world of men than a woman limited only by her imagination?�
Just because something is imagined doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous. Sometimes the things we believe in are the most dangerous things about us.
Weapons only destroy, my dear. Instruments, however, both destroy and create.
“That’s the thing about a big imagination. It’s hard to belong anywhere when you can always imagine something better.
