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Marigris
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"When someone said to me, "How do you feel?" or "What do you think?" or asked another direct question, I would recite a poem, and somewhere in that poem would be the feeling, the vital piece of information. It might be a line. It might be an image. The poem was my response."
— 11 hours, 23 min ago
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Marigris
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"Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply."
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Marigris
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"We have too often been expected to be all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our very own."
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Heather
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I dunno about this. Some of it is really dated. This is a weird time to read about such adoration of the USSR, for example. lol
— Feb 07, 2026 08:27PM
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Marigris
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"And there is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love."
— Feb 06, 2026 07:02PM
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Marigris
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"The dear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our oppression as women."
— Feb 06, 2026 07:01PM
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Marigris
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"We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings."
— Feb 06, 2026 06:59PM
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