Women are expected
To stay soft
To be selfless
To adapt
And to sacrifice
But some of us
Haven’t been soft in a long time
Hardened by the burdens put on us by the world
Exhausted from the expectations forced on us
And too stubborn to act like we fit in anymore
Some of us
are
As untameable as the sea
As enraged as the storm
As tough as the sun
And as persistent as the wind
This book is for us
For the angry women
The tough women
The stubborn women
The women who know they deserve better
We are never alone
About the author
Ida Sophie Koch (b. 1994) is Danish born and raised but lives in Munich. She holds a MA in German and a BA in comparative literature. Through her poems she explores the sides of femininity often suppressed or tried erased, the strength that lives within us, and the tangled lines of a mind often tied up in expectations.