I didn’t fall to temptation – I rose to it.
I ate that apple because I was hungry.
I wanted what lay outside of Paradise,
a world without the burden of perfection.
Now you call all sinful women my sisters.
I say, let them claim their own damn sins.
The apple may not be perfect, but it’s mine.
Diane Lockward, from ‘Eve Argues Against Perfection’ (via atratum)