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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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