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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Book by Warsan Shire · 4 quotes · Poetry, Love, War

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“You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boat and tell her that men will not love her if she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her stomach is an island if her thighs are borders? What man wants to lie down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter ’s face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear, a body littered with ugly things. But God, doesn’t she wear the world well?”

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“Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.”

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“Later that night she picked the polish off with her front teeth until the bed you shared for seven years seemed speckled with glitter and blood.”

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“I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.”

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