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Stardust & Stories's avatar

Such a beautiful post! Been really intrigued ever since I read Madeleine Miller's Circle. Thank you for sharing it. ✨🍃🙌🏼

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Desirée's avatar

Your words awakened something in me the unsettling, magnetic truth of the monstrous feminine. That raw power we’re taught to fear, suppress, or sanitize. Reading about Circe through this lens felt like meeting a hidden part of woman, one that has teeth, desire, and the audacity to transform rejection into magic. Thank you for naming her.

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Practically Magic Momma's avatar

The,”monstrous feminine,” what a beautiful description of what we feel everyday as women. There’s a fierceness in us all that the men fear and enjoy. I loved The Odyssey as a young woman but found myself connecting with Circe by Madeline Miller as an adult woman. These stories (mostly written by men) lack the perspective of the female that somehow and nearly always finds herself being the villain. Well, my hat’s off for them all. Being constantly demonized but still remaining unabashedly themselves…👏👏👏

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Embodied Visions's avatar

Love your post! Thank you

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Gio Hermes's avatar

Thanks to Madeline Miller’s masterpiece, Circe finally got to tell her own story. 💫

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