Books by Ida Sophie Koch

Women are expectedTo stay softTo be selflessTo adaptAnd to sacrificeBut some of usHaven’t been soft in a long timeHardened by the burdens put on us by the worldExhausted from the expectations forced on usAnd too stubborn to act like we fit in anymoreSome of usareAs untameable as the seaAs enraged as the stormAs tough as the sunAnd as persistent as the windThis book is for usFor the angry womenThe tough womenThe stubborn womenThe women who know they deserve betterWe are never aloneOm forfatterenIda Sophie Koch (b. 1994) is Danish born and raised but lives in Munich. She holds a MA in German and a BA in comparative literature. Through her poems she explores the sides of femininity often suppressed or tried erased, the strength that lives within us, and the tangled lines of a mind often tied up in expectations.