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...imprisoned muses
cried to be free
she took away their qu...
MUSE![]()
Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER![]()
Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë![]()
She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless...
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Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON![]()
Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
WARSAN SHIRE![]()
What did she say?'
'She made her displeasure with his existence clear.'
'That's it?'
...
MICHELLE SAGARA WEST![]()
It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI![]()
She dried her tears, and they did smile
To see her cheeks’ returning glow;
Nor did disce...
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Power
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Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.
She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppi...
J.R. WARD he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
ASHISH BHARDWAJ![]()
Studies show:
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Because they know
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She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
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I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.
oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
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Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)
I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
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...
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Love Sorrow
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take care of what has...
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She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks.
She was always tryi...
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Thinking about future, she ruined her present?
Or<...
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When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
H...
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She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" DAVE MATTHES ![]()
She is that maze,
the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing no...
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he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY MOM
Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
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Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
Say that she...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
What does Éloa mean?”
He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name...
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To an Isle in the Water
Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS![]()
she is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sittin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
bu...
LANG LEAV Sweet Grace amazes me
The way that she can see
Beyond the man I am
To the man that I ...
JASON GRAY Her close friends have gathered.
Lord, ain't it a shame
Grieving together
Sharing the...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON![]()
In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.
Or at least thi...
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Survive
...
Some women survive
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IJEOMA UMEBINYUO For the Wife Beater's Wife
With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
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She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
A.A. MILNE![]()
She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.
....
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DESDEMONA
Come, how wouldst thou praise me?
IAGO
I am about it; but indeed my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY she wants a man
who doesn't want
anyone else but her
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She rides the sandworm of space!
She guides through all storms
Into the land of gentle win...
FRANK HERBERT She grew tired of shielding her body,
For societal expectation and propriety,
Double stand...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE But why did she come back and take her card away?" asked Miss Mackintosh. "I told Florence that Miss...
E.F. BENSON Keep an eye out for her,
she tends to disappear
intermittently, leaving no
note for o...
AKASH MANDAL We hate to see her go, ... We were hoping that she would
stay a while, with all the wonde...
BRUCE WHITE![]()
Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unles...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE![]()
How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit bea...
MELINA MARCHETTA I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT She doesn’t have a ring on each finger, or a big diamond on each ring.
She doesn’t we...
ANNE BEREST AUDREY DIWAN CAROLINE DE MAIGRET AND SOPHIE MAS There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
Wh...
KRISTEN MCKEE![]()
The Garden
En robe de parade.
- Samain
Like a skein of loose silk...
EZRA POUND![]()
Women Are Not Roses
Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
ANA CASTILLO ![]()
Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY The life spills over, some days.
She cannot be at rest,
Wishes she could explode
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER She said he looked hot in uniform.
He said she looked hot without clothes.
S...
ANGELA VERDENIUS One thing about her," I said, "that often gets lost in all the scripts is that she can love uncondit...
REBECCA LEE She would disappear
folded like origami
into her own dreams
LAUREN BEUKES She moaned, long and low, wanting to arch, to thrash, to scream. Instead she opened her mouth and bi...
ELIZABETH HOYT![]()
Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy
He's...
JEANIENE FROST The thunder howled and the rain splashed, the leaves played with the breeze and the lightning flashe...
AVIJEET DAS![]()
She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her.
He knew her. DENNIS LEHANE ![]()
There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother
She takes care of you when you are...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She cries,
I laugh,
She becomes numb,
I become filled with joy,
She slowly crumb...
TANZY SAYADI![]()
Could any State on Earth Immortall be,
Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;
Venice Great N...
JAMES HOWELL![]()
Dear Deborah,
Words do not come easily for so many men. We are taught to be strong, to...
LISA WINGATE![]()
He leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?"
... Sudden, overwhelming pan...
MARISSA MEYER I’ll come back,” she promised. “I’ll always come back to you.”
“I know,” he said ...
TIFFANY REISZ She doesn’t burn bridges,
she covers them in gypsy flowers
and feather kisses,
t...
MELODY LEE Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despit...
G.G. RENEE HILL![]()
Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth....
MICHAEL GRANT![]()
A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, an...
WALTER DE LA MARE![]()
Did she help people?" Miss Level added.
...
...
"She made them help one another, she ...
TERRY PRATCHETT The Top Ten Reasons Why Virgin Val Sucks
10. She called me a one-hit-wonder.
9. She doesn�...
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The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
TIM BURTON![]()
She'd met Colin on a Monday.
She'd kissed him on a Friday.
Twelve years later.
She si...
JULIA QUINN I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
Fo...
ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE![]()
You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."
Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fi...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON![]()
Every letter
that she types;
every keystroke
that she strikes-
To spell yo...
LANG LEAV![]()
...it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the ab...
SARAH J. MAAS![]()
She is the force, that you end up
reading about in thick novels. She is
the kind of woman...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Kaede: I know this, ungrateful dog. In order to find the sacred jewel shards, Kagome's spirtual powe...
RUMIKO TAKAHASHI![]()
Ô, the wine of a woman
from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can in...
ROMAN PAYNE![]()
Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
RUPI KAUR She's Devine.
She's Magic.
And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order fo...
C.R. BITTAR![]()
from I Knew a Woman
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small...
THEODORE ROETHKE![]()
It's all right," said Wolf. "You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet...
MARISSA MEYER![]()
There was a young lady from Gloucester
Who complained that her parents both bossed her,
So...
JOHN CIARDI Soeur Marie Emelie"
Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER![]()
THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul...
W.B. YEATS![]()
I said, I want to tell you something.
She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I was told
The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7
She picks the color...
RUDY FRANCISCO![]()
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And w...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW![]()
I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply.
"You truly want me?"
"Mo...
KAREN MARIE MONING
...imprisoned muses
cried to be free
she took away their qu...
MUSE
Not only didI love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Hope Was but a timid friend;She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë
She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless...
NIKKI ROWE
Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON
Your daughter is ugly.She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
WARSAN SHIRE
What did she say?''She made her displeasure with his existence clear.'
'That's it?'
...
MICHELLE SAGARA WEST
It was a face which darkness could killin an instant
a face as easily hurt
...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks’ returning glow;
Nor did disce...
EMILY BRONTë She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachmen...
RACHEL THOMPSON
PowerLiving in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divul...
ADRIENNE RICH
Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppi...
J.R. WARD he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
ASHISH BHARDWAJ
Studies show:Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world i...
EMILIE AUTUMN
She died--this was the way she died;And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple ward...
EMILY DICKINSON
I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
PATTI SMITH She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness.
...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .
And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī
Love SorrowLove sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
MARY OLIVER She wasn’t broken.
She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks.
She was always tryi...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN What makes more sense in today's world?
Thinking about future, she ruined her present?
Or<...
JAPNEET KAUR
When she comesShe pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
H...
HENRY ROLLINS
She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" 
She is that maze,the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing no...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER As he took her hand
he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY MOM
Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
GIORGE LEEDY
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plainShe sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
Say that she...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What does Éloa mean?”He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name...
SARAH MACLEAN
To an Isle in the WaterShy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS
she is no longerthe beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sittin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A bird who hurt her wing,now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
bu...
LANG LEAV Sweet Grace amazes me
The way that she can see
Beyond the man I am
To the man that I ...
JASON GRAY Her close friends have gathered.
Lord, ain't it a shame
Grieving together
Sharing the...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least thi...
JODI PICOULT Her phone beeps and she pulls it out again. She frowns.
I give her a side-eye. “Everyth...
ASHLEY POSTON
Survive...
Some women survive
by creating walls,
big walls guarding their heart...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO For the Wife Beater's Wife
With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
BRUCE WEIGL
DaffodowndillyShe wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
A.A. MILNE
She lends her pen,to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.
....
PETER CAREY
DESDEMONACome, how wouldst thou praise me?
IAGO
I am about it; but indeed my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY she wants a man
who doesn't want
anyone else but her
R.H. SIN Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly ...
LES MARTIN
She rides the sandworm of space!She guides through all storms
Into the land of gentle win...
FRANK HERBERT She grew tired of shielding her body,
For societal expectation and propriety,
Double stand...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink
E.F. BENSON Keep an eye out for her,
she tends to disappear
intermittently, leaving no
note for o...
AKASH MANDAL We hate to see her go, ... We were hoping that she would
stay a while, with all the wonde...
BRUCE WHITE
Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unles... CHRISTOPHER MOORE
How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit bea... MELINA MARCHETTA I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT She doesn’t have a ring on each finger, or a big diamond on each ring.
She doesn’t we...
ANNE BEREST AUDREY DIWAN CAROLINE DE MAIGRET AND SOPHIE MAS There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
Wh...
KRISTEN MCKEE
The GardenEn robe de parade.
- Samain
Like a skein of loose silk...
EZRA POUND
Women Are Not RosesWomen have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed."Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY The life spills over, some days.
She cannot be at rest,
Wishes she could explode
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER She said he looked hot in uniform.
He said she looked hot without clothes.
S...
ANGELA VERDENIUS One thing about her," I said, "that often gets lost in all the scripts is that she can love uncondit...
REBECCA LEE She would disappear
folded like origami
into her own dreams
LAUREN BEUKES She moaned, long and low, wanting to arch, to thrash, to scream. Instead she opened her mouth and bi...
ELIZABETH HOYT
Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - TimmyHe's...
JEANIENE FROST The thunder howled and the rain splashed, the leaves played with the breeze and the lightning flashe...
AVIJEET DAS
She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her.He knew her.
There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving motherShe takes care of you when you are...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She cries,
I laugh,
She becomes numb,
I become filled with joy,
She slowly crumb...
TANZY SAYADI
Could any State on Earth Immortall be,Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;
Venice Great N...
JAMES HOWELL
Dear Deborah,Words do not come easily for so many men. We are taught to be strong, to...
LISA WINGATE
He leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?"... Sudden, overwhelming pan...
MARISSA MEYER I’ll come back,” she promised. “I’ll always come back to you.”
“I know,” he said ...
TIFFANY REISZ She doesn’t burn bridges,
she covers them in gypsy flowers
and feather kisses,
t...
MELODY LEE Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despit...
G.G. RENEE HILL
Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.... MICHAEL GRANT
A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, an...
WALTER DE LA MARE
Did she help people?" Miss Level added....
...
"She made them help one another, she ...
TERRY PRATCHETT The Top Ten Reasons Why Virgin Val Sucks
10. She called me a one-hit-wonder.
9. She doesn�...
KELLY ORAM
The Girl With Many EyesOne day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
TIM BURTON
She'd met Colin on a Monday.She'd kissed him on a Friday.
Twelve years later.
She si...
JULIA QUINN I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
Fo...
ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE
You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fi...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON
Every letterthat she types;
every keystroke
that she strikes-
To spell yo...
LANG LEAV
...it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the ab... SARAH J. MAAS
She is the force, that you end upreading about in thick novels. She is
the kind of woman...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Kaede: I know this, ungrateful dog. In order to find the sacred jewel shards, Kagome's spirtual powe...
RUMIKO TAKAHASHI
Ô, the wine of a womanfrom heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can in...
ROMAN PAYNE
Every time you tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
RUPI KAUR She's Devine.
She's Magic.
And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order fo...
C.R. BITTAR
from I Knew a WomanI knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small...
THEODORE ROETHKE
It's all right," said Wolf. "You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet... MARISSA MEYER
There was a young lady from GloucesterWho complained that her parents both bossed her,
So...
JOHN CIARDI Soeur Marie Emelie"
Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul...
W.B. YEATS
I said, I want to tell you something.She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I was told
The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7
She picks the color...
RUDY FRANCISCO
There was a little girl Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And w...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply."You truly want me?"
"Mo...
KAREN MARIE MONING
