What we want is freedom, what we want is the power to determine our destiny.
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What we want is nothing about us without us. What we want is for each individual to define their own identity and expect that society will respect them.
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We never wanted to kill // only to stay alive // & We waited like virgins // for the gentleness of strangers // to help or
empathize.
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Two hundred Indian women killed their rapist on the courtroom floor of Nagpur in 2004. When Police tried to arrest lead perpetrators // the women responded “arrest us all.”
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I no longer want to see who refuses to see me.
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the schoolman said
The world is hard harder for girls than it ever was
What a beautiful day Dan texts
I know nothing about it I respond
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as is a seed, as is a drop of water we are bound to a triumphant bloom,
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every man is a grave .
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But it turns out, in the end, not everything broken in him—in us—is worth saving.
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Long ago, we used two words for the worth of a house, a car, A woman—all the same to men who claimed them: things
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the scar of your childhood will never heal.
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Do not close your mouth for them.
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I want to believe
I’m a better woman
now that I’m writing poems.
that when I say,
poems I mean
another way to say, revenge .
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my mother
doesn’t rely on instruction manuals or men
nor does she equate the two can fix anything if you get out of her way says the best technology is her own two hands
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i heard a woman becomes herself the first time she speaks without permission
then, every word out of her mouth a riot
say, beautiful
& point to the map of your body
say, brave
& wear your skin like a gown or a suit
say, hero
& cast yourself in the lead role
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