# Quote — Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

> A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women’s work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water. I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly.

- Author: [Naomi Novik](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-novik.md)
- Book: [Spinning Silver](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-novik/spinning-silver.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-novik/spinning-silver/a-crowd-of-women

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> But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.

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> The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father’s house was thinking: no one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I’d had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I’d never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

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> A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true

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