Poems List

I can’t mate in captivity.

on being asked why she hadn’t married

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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Law and justice are not always the same.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
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However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

attributed

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We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

in Ms July/August 1982

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