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Love that requires you to disappear is not love. It is control dressed as intimacy.

– Empress

THE ONE I WOULDN’T SKIP

Women Are From Venus. Have You Seen Venus?

They told women we were from Venus, then sold us the version with all the teeth removed. Soft. Sweet. Receptive. Easy to manage. Unfortunately, the original Venus did not get the memo. She belonged to love and war, appeared as an omen to kings, and the actual planet is a glittering ball of pressure, heat and acid. So the real question is not whether feminine energy is soft. It is why anyone needed us to believe that.

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Women Are From Venus. Have You Seen Venus?

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LETTER TO EMPRESS.

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“Dear Empress, My husband thinks silence is a weapon. For years he has used it whenever he wants to punish me. Not shouting, not arguing, not even looking at me. Just silence.…”

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