“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variant: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
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