
Emblem IV
Smarter to ignore it.
I think often about the pressure to be intellectual
And reject all superstition
To avoid being considered
Emotional.
Hysterical.
Ignorant.
Dumb.
Women, especially, are chastised for their investments in the spiritual, the occult
That’s some bullshit,
And I will no longer abide.

Above: The Alchemist. Philips Galle, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, after 1558. About this plate