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"Light from her humility
pierced the skies with so much virtue,
that it made the Eternal Lord marvel...
since he saw our harmful life
was not worthy of such a gentle one."
- Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova
"Dante's Dream at the... Death of Beatrice"
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Our library must have a small but mighty section devoted to oysters and clams. I'm on the case.
“Magdalene described how she had given her heart to Jesus and how He had returned it to her with the purity of the Virgin...’s own heart. Jesus had even hidden...Magdalene in His side...”
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Magdalene, disciple of fellowship, the faithful, the beloved.
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“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”
- Emily Dickinson
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes.” - Adrienne Rich
“I thought about the Medusa I'd seen in an old movie when I was younger, monstrous and green-scaled, and I thought: That's not it at all. She was beautiful as Mama. That's how she froze those men, with the shock of seeing something so perfect and fierce in the world.” Jesmyn Ward