I wanted to write a piece that encapsulated the strength of women. At first, I was going to write something physically and aurally demanding—hard; I then realized that our strength is perseverance and endurance, adaptability and openness, and connection to others. Dedicated to a decolonizing activist historian friend, I wrote this piece thinking about women loving their man who has come home from war; women who have lost their children; women who have been beaten by men, the system, or both, and who still have the strength to love.