“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that - to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to by others.”

—  Sylvia Townsend Warner, book Lolly Willowes

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writer, poet, activist 1893–1978

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