We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.