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I was told repeatedly that I could not write what I cared about. Political poetry was uncouth and not real poetry. Also uncouth and unreal was anything having to do with the body as it existed in reality and my experiences as a woman or a Jew. Everything was to be tidy, male, "universal." The most admired pieces seemed to be sonnets about paintings viewed in the Uffizi while abroad on Guggenheims.
— Dec 22, 2022 05:07AM
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Aerin
is on page 103 of 128
It’s always far easier to fight someone with whom you share 85 percent of your politics than someone who shares 50 percent or less.
— Dec 23, 2022 11:21AM
Aerin
is on page 85 of 128
Women lived with a fear hard for us to understand now, when the possibility of pregnancy meant that desire or even true love might kill. To become pregnant when you did not want to be was to enter a world of illegality and danger, of uncertainty and pain.
Well, it’s a lot easier to understand now.
— Dec 23, 2022 09:40AM
Well, it’s a lot easier to understand now.
