If I ever have a daughter, I will love her like she is prayer incarnate, raise her to believe that her goodness is enough, that she is already a glowing, amber God.

That the vivid embers that glitter in her eyes come from the Goddess Hestia's divine fires, and her diamond spine was created in Hephaestus' volcano forge.

And I swear, I will shatter this world like Hera herself if it dares teach her the same shame, the violent and constant self-doubt it taught me instead of loving my own worth.

And if she ever asks me what she can be, I will tell her: 'Anything you want. You are already a God.'
―NIKITA GILL, if i ever have a daughter
( aka helen blyton's idea of motherhood )

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i. where the streets have no name by U2 | ii. uptown girl by billy joel | iii. dancing in the dark by bruce springsteen | iv. my sharona by the knack | v. my girl by the temptations | vi. neon moon by brooks & dunn | vii. running up that hill (a deal with god) by kate bush | viii. waterloo by ABBBA | ix. tiny dancer by elton john | x. every breath you take by the police