"Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies."

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Louise Erdrich

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“Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.”
“We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near. We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond. Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?”

Source : Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC
“I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.”
“It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.”
“Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.”
“Who can be born black and not exult!”

Source : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
“I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.”
“When I looked at my lifeâ€™s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldnâ€™t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.”

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