When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
I crunch the assigned reading in my shaking hand, an article titled __an Quayle was right._ It argued that children raised by single moms were destined for failure. Joined by my fellow students, we argue that our lives are not limited by our absent fathers. The teacher laughs awkwardly and backs away from our arguments. __or God__ sake, don__ take it personally._ The cardinal sin of women and oppressed people everywhere: taking their lives personally.- S.A. Williams
The Nasty Women Project: Voices from the Resistance
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I crunch the assigned reading in my shaking hand, an article titled __an Quayle was right._ It argued that children raised by single moms were destined for failure. Joined by my fellow students, we argue that our lives are not limited by our absent fathers. The teacher laughs awkwardly and backs away from our arguments. __or God__ sake, don__ take it personally._ The cardinal sin of women and oppressed people everywhere: taking their lives personally.- S.A. Williams
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