HEXENFOTZE
HEXENFOTZE or Witch Cunt is a zine inspired by physical media, practicing witch craft, and womxn and fems. Volume 1 out now at all Hexe Paper Company tabling and in-person events.
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Quotes from Volume 1
Amy Harmon
"True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed."
Claire Messud
"I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman."
Hannah Arendt
"Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise."
Margaret Cho
“Anger has been a tremendously healing tool for me. Obviously, there’s a lot of language around not being angry and accepting and forgiving your abuser, but — I don’t want to forgive.”
Fran Liebowitz
“I’m pretty angry, but the problem with me is that I’m always in an extreme state of rage. I have all this other rage in me from 1950.”
Maya Angelou
“You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”
Joan Rivers
“The minute you’re not angry about things, the minute you’re not upset about things, what are you talking about? … I’m furious about everything.”
Emily Hardy(Hexenfotze Author)
“I never stop feeling angry, I think it’s anger at my core that motivates me.”
Anne Rice
"So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end."
Leslie Jamison
“…we often hear in that tinny register another truth, lurking expectantly, and begin to realize there are things about ourselves we don’t yet know. By which I mean that at a certain point, I started to suspect I was angrier than I thought.”
Soraya Chemaly
“A society that does not respect women's anger is one that does not respect women; not as human beings, thinkers, knowers, active participants, or citizens.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.”
Fiona Apple
“The assault when I was 12 made me think about innocence and guilt and forgiveness. It made me think about a lot of big things. Because the first thing I did after it happened was pray for him … Last year is the first time I felt anger towards that guy … I wouldn’t allow myself to be angry at him because of shit I assumed had been done to him. I think women do that a lot. We’ll be like, ‘Oh, but he was hurt when he was a kid. That’s why he did that to me.’ Fuck you, I was hurt when I was a kid. I didn’t do it to him. You know? We’re very understanding, women. We want to take care of people. We want to protect people. But, please, not at the expense of ourselves anymore.”
Inspiration and References
Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
“I always compare myself to a venomous snake: in order to be the best version of myself for the world, I must expel my venom. Never feel bad for standing up for yourself or for standing up for others, because it's never in vain, even if it can feel like it at the time.”
Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“We are so busy teaching girls to be likeable that we often forget to teach them, as we do boys, that they should be respected.”