I, Being Born a Woman, and Distressedby Edna St. Vincent Millay I, being born a woman, and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast:...
Anne Hathaway was a woman, half as old again. DR. MOTH A woman of property? WILL (shrugs) She had a cottage. One day, she was three months gone with child, so DR. MOTH And your relations? WILL On my mother's side the Ardens DR. MOTH No, your marriage bed. WILL Four years and...
Mother Death PoemA Strong And Courageous WomanThis is a poem about the strength and presence of my mother and how she will live on with us forever. She was so brave and taken too soon and too quickly.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
According to “My Underground Life in Berlin,” a memoir she wrote with the help of her daughter, Ida Gassenheimer was advised by a sympathetic Aryan doctor to take the name of an Aryan German woman he knew was within days of death. Taking temporary refuge with friends, she wrote to regi...
Why You Should Watch:In Secretis a thriller set in the 1860s and is the story of a young woman stuck in a loveless marriage. It’s based on the novelThérèse Raquinby Émile Zola, and while it has some gothic elements, it technically falls under the category of Naturalism. ...
woman walked by in tight slacks lizard brain looked saw she was walking a dog brain shifted to dog and she was gone doggone I analyze folk by their kids art, books, music, pets, worry wrinkles dog was happy tight slacks might be okay She judged me by not seeing me happens when you’...
I stumbled across Enter a Child when it came up among the results when I went to the Internet Archive in search of a Patricia Traxler poem. It was about a woman’s memory of an abusive relationship and the only words I could remember were “kidnappers, burglars.” Amazingly, Traxler’s ...
Yes, of course. We know where this autumnal existence is headed. Even the finest October day contains the seeds of melancholy. The cold and the dark draw near. But if we can take the long view, these too shall pass. Pamela Steed Hill says this so poignantly in her poem, “September ...
She’s not a dumb woman and yet, she can’t outright accuse the head of the Mediterranean Syndicate of arranging the theft and the bet. In walks Amanda. The goons make to draw their concealed guns but hesitate when the angelic blonde beauty enters. She visually is not a threat, yet,...
The next morning’s reunion is touching, yet now the reality has hit for the older daughters. Eunice kicks into strong woman mode to protect her “babies”. The story shifts significantly here since the wage earner is gone. Eunice sells the house and the family moves to Sao Paulo. Eunice...