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Tori Amos once wrote that only women bleed, it caused much debate at the time but undoubtedly she was correct in her assertion, the female of the species may be more deadly than the male but its suffering at the hands of masculine and the aggressive feminine is enough to understand why Feminism is needed now more than ever. It might be a call for sisterhood in some quarters but the damage that a woman receives from her own gender, her own doubts and fears is enough to feel the heartbreak that comes with Laura Marling’s Semper Femina.