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“Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.”
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“Her mother told her
she could grow up to be
anything she wanted to be,
so she grew up to become
the strongest of the strong,
the strangest of the strange,
the wildest of the wild,
the wolf leading the wolves.”
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she could grow up to be
anything she wanted to be,
so she grew up to become
the strongest of the strong,
the strangest of the strange,
the wildest of the wild,
the wolf leading the wolves.”
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“The river
takes what she wants,
does what she desires
and washes over anything
that stands in her way.”
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takes what she wants,
does what she desires
and washes over anything
that stands in her way.”
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“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't.
Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
“The women who hate me hate their insistent desires, their fat lusts swallowed and hidden, disciplined to nothing narrowed to bone and dry hot dreams.”
― The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
― The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
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