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Born November 19, 1942, Sharon Olds is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet currently teaching creative writing at New York University. Despite her style and subject matter, Olds has commented that she is more informed by the work of poets such as Galway Kinnell, Muriel Rukeyser and Gwendolyn Brooks than by confessional poets like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath. When Olds first sent her poetry to a literary magazine she received a reply saying, “This is a literary magazine. If you wish to write about this sort of subject, may we suggest the Ladies' Home Journal. The true subjects of poetry are... male subjects, not your children."“A word after a word after a word is power.” ― Margaret Atwood25% off almost everything at Society6 with promo code NOV25 📚 Check out all the great products in our Society6 shop here http://tiny.cc/GasStationB or follow the link in our profile to shop all the designs we have available! Thank you! #gsblibrarycards #gsbatsociety6There are a number of reasons why this quote is relevant today, and tomorrow there will be even more examples, whether that means another shooting at a yoga studio, or a rapist gets off because of his victim’s clothing, or a rapist gets off because he’s young and the judge doesn’t want ruin his life, or, or, or, or..... 🎧 But I thought to share it because it was fresh in my mind because of a podcast I’ve been listening to, ‘Happy Face’ which mentions this quote specifically in Episode 8. It’s produced by the daughter of the Happy Face Killer, Keith Jesperson, who raped and murdered eight women, and only turned himself in because two other people had been convicted of his crimes. He wanted the credit. While in prison Jesperson did interviews and spoke calmly and thoroughly about his victims, about how it was ultimately their fault he killed them. If only she hadn’t spoken that way about men, if only she hadn’t provoked him, if only she hadn’t made him do it. If only she hadn’t laughed.25% off almost everything at Society6 with promo code NOV25 📚 Check out all the great products in our Society6 shop here http://tiny.cc/GasStationB or follow the link in our profile to shop all the designs we have available! Thank you! #gsblibrarycards #gsbatsociety6Born November 18, 1939 Margaret Atwood is a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist. Among the seventeen books of poetry, sixteen novels, ten books of non-fiction, eight collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and one graphic novel, Atwood is best known for her novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale” and it’s adaptation as a tv series.@gasstation_b
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