“At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorize their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest.” FeminismPatriarchy Book:Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad Source: Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
“when love floods a person it cuts a canyon that deepens year after year carrying silt away leaving the essential person revealed letting everyone see the layers of yellow sandstone, red basalt grey granite when love washes over a person it washes the person away” LovePoetryPoemGeographyErosionMergingTopographyFloods Author:Alicia Suskin Ostriker