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Difficult Women: Marguerite de Valois aka Queen Margot
Crowd goes wild at her fingertips, half moonshine, a full eclipse
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Difficult Women: Catherine de' Medici
Draw the cat eye, sharp enough to kill a man/ You did some bad things, but I'm the worst of them
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Difficult Women: Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa
The scandalous saga of Sweden’s pirate princess
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How Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote beauty from tragedy
The forgotten history of the Anne of Green Gables author
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Difficult Women: Artemisia Gentileschi
My heart, my hips, my body, my love / Trying to find a part of me that you didn’t touch
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Difficult Women: Margery Jourdemayne and Eleanor Cobham
They're burning all the witches even if you aren't one
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Difficult Women: Elizabeth Báthory
Long may you reign, you’re an animal, you are bloodthirsty
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Difficult Women: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But the monsters turned out to be just trees
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Difficult Women: Jeanne de la Motte and the Affair of the Necklace
Best believe I'm still bejeweled/ When I walk in the room
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Difficult Women: Cleopatra, part two
In which Mark Antony's thighs cost lives
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Difficult Women: Cleopatra, part one
Comin atcha!
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