Sappho, tr. by Josephine Balmer, from “Poems and Fragments,” c. 1984
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Ever notice how when justifying a child’s misbehavior no one ever says stuff like “girls will be girls” or “she’s a girl”, but the list of things a “young lady” can’t do is almost endless?
You learn from a young age that masculinity comes with freedom; femininity comes with restrictions.
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Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from Selected Poems & Writings of J. R. G.; “Poetry,”
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womanhood and having a voyeuristic relationship with your own pain
“am i suffering beautifully?” “is my agony lovable?”
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“I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.”— Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf
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