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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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