"Which is the woman, which the child? The joyous laugh that opens doors, steals sugared moments from the shelf? Or the dreamer mixing metaphors with tears to make a book of self To read aloud in winter's rooms When summer's sounds have ceased to bloom?"
"Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman."
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Source: Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.115, Penguin
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