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“Those poets who crack down worlds open with their honesty. I learned in school to mistrust their realness and read it as e sessile feminism blathering. I learned to read their writing through their suicides as evidence of some sort of weakness. Their poetry became a kind of cautionary tale about exposing too much of yourself.”
— Oct 10, 2023 10:46AM
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Some reviews said the last bit about mothers is the best and maybe one day I’ll pick up and get there. However the idea of a killjoy feminist lacks depth and this essay doesn’t add much to the issue. ONCE AGAIN: the author has full freedom to write about whatever she wants and her experiences were definitely real and frightening and true and should be respected.
— Oct 31, 2023 03:13PM
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Not good because I was also scared that I was overreacting and that my fear was foolish
— Oct 10, 2023 12:22PM
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Cruel optimism, “but hope also brings the realization that if something else is possible, then the stifling wasn’t necessary or inevitable.”
— Oct 10, 2023 11:32AM
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“And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about”
— Oct 10, 2023 10:44AM
