Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge. She taught me how to become a good ancestor. At least this - loving her presence, appreciating her wisdom - is something I know how to do well.

That idea...it was you. You are the universe’s fairytale come true.

MOTHER EARTHThe earth grew youlimb by limbwithin her womb.You owe it to hernot to turn her bodyinto a tomb.

THE EARTH AND THE OCEANI wonder if the earthever heard the oceancry for the people she lostwhen they drownedinside her depths.

When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.

Some days I am more wolf than woman and I am still learning how to stop apologising for my wild.

Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.

Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.

Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted be, so she grew up to become the strongest of the strong, the strangest of the strange, the wildest of the wild, the wolf leading wolves.

Did you think they did it alone?Built whole armies,and conquered thrones?Constructed promised landsthat would outlive the sunresurrected prosperity from ash and bone?A crest is not just a manmade thingit is also created by generations of womenwho wield swords through guile and letters.Show me your kings,and I will show you the queens that willed them,that bred them, and taught them to do better.