Be wicked and lovely...

I don't say things from the heart like this often or lightly, so forgive me if it comes out sounding stilted: "Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves" helped me save myself. I wasn't raised to be a Wicked Girl (though my mother's parents tried very hard to counter the rest of my family's influences). I was taught being one was Wrong and Bad, and meant that I would never be loved. Then I started meeting Wicked Girls, and I began to think. And you wrote this song, which put into words what I felt, and what friends tried to tell me, and it crystallized into the push I needed at the exact moment everything came together. I hope someday I will be able to hear it without crying. It meant so much to me that I played it for a friend of mine, who ended up leaving a long-time abusive relationship; when she called me to say so, she told me "It was the words It's better to fly" that helped her make up her mind to stop waiting for someone else to show her an escape, and make her own.

Thank you.