On womanhood
Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must
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one thing I recommend every woman go find for herself is the audacity
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The conflict of womanhood that I’m forever grappling with
Sylvia Plath
one thing I recommend every woman go find for herself is the audacity
