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I am deeply grateful to the women who really blazed the way-poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and Maxine Kumin.

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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I am Rita Dove,
the beautiful dove.
See my black neck,
see my speck.
My ass is not so much cracked
but i want to get out now.
The poet, am I.
Am me.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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