Selected Poems Quotes

“You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Selected Poems

“Then he started his period.
One week in bed.
Two doctors in.
Three painkillers four times a day.
And later a letter to the powers-that-be
demanding full-paid menstrual leave twelve weeks per year.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Selected Poems