Because of the influence of the Gulf Stream, Murmansk is a warm-water port despite being above the Arctic Circle.

A child who is born to an uncircumcised girl is not allowed to live; as one old woman said, 'only women, not children can have children'

It's a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze, Don Hagarty said.

One step out of, one step into, our homes, our hearts, and accepted truth falls before the laughter and questing of positively revolting women belaughing our way through the wilderness of women's wildness, through the curiosity of Sarasvati, into the answers we need, the answers we know, the daughter-right of our births.