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The Women Who Hate Me Quotes
The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
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Dorothy Allison497 ratings, 4.12 average rating, 39 reviews
The Women Who Hate Me Quotes
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“We all nourish truth with our tongues
not in sour-batter words that never take shape
nor line-driven stories bent to skirt the edge
of our great exhaustion, desire, and doubt.
We all use simply the words of our own lives
to say what we really want,
to lie spent on our lovers,
put teeth to all we hate,
to strain the juice of our history
between what has been allowed
and what has always been denied,
the active desire to take hold of the root.”
― The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
not in sour-batter words that never take shape
nor line-driven stories bent to skirt the edge
of our great exhaustion, desire, and doubt.
We all use simply the words of our own lives
to say what we really want,
to lie spent on our lovers,
put teeth to all we hate,
to strain the juice of our history
between what has been allowed
and what has always been denied,
the active desire to take hold of the root.”
― The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
“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
