Erica

“There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“God gave women beauty to tempt man and speech to drive him mad.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“Who has more power in a house than the woman who stirs the soup and makes the bread and scrubs the floors, who fills the foot warmer with hot coals, and arranges your letters, and nurses your children?” Her anger radiated from her like heat from a stone left in the sun. She was right, of course. These were the ways women entered the body, through the kitchen, through the nursery, their hands in your bed, your clothes, your hair. There was danger in such trust, and a wise man learned to respect the women who tended to his home and heirs. “Do”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar