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We do our best, we Queens, we mothers, mothers of Queens. We wade through blood for our sleeping girls. We have daggers for eyes. Behind our lullabies, the hooves of terrible horses thunder and drum.

--Carol Ann Duffy, Queen Herod

--Carol Ann Duffy, Queen Herod

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❝Listen. I do not think you understand me here.

In which the women from times past rise up to speak from gilded tongues and tattered throats, to tell you the truth that no man dared to tell you—for they are not men.

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❝You are dealing with the divine

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❝You are dealing with the divine.

MEN ARE TERRIBLE THINGS. They write their histories and only theirs, without remembering the bone of their bone and the flesh of their flesh.

Their mothers.

Their wives.

Their women.

Their life.

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