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People I meet . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . of the nation, The latest news . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . authors old and new, My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues, The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love, The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . or ill-doing . . . or loss or lack of money . . . or depressions or exaltations, They come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself.
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
The sky is deep and distant, laced with sycamore limbs like a hatching of crossed swords.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Those who seek to glorify biblical womanhood have forgotten the dark stories. They have forgotten that the concubine of Bethlehem, the raped princess of David’s house, the daughter of Jephthah, and the countless unnamed women who lived and died between the lines of Scripture exploited, neglected, ravaged, and crushed at the hand of patriarchy are as much a part of our shared narrative as Deborah, Esther, Rebekah, and Ruth. We may not have a ceremony through which to grieve them, but it is our responsibility as women of faith to guard the dark stories for our own daughters, and when they are old enough, to hold their faces between our hands and make them promise to remember.
A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Rachel Held Evans
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