Maha manav

The man who does not know sick women does not know women.

--Silas_Weir_Mitchell

I try to describe this long limitation, hoping that with such power as is now mine, and such use of language as is within that power, this will convince any one who cares about it that this “living” of mine had been done under heavy handicap……

--Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman

A Word dropped careless on a Page

May stimulate an eye

When folded in perpetual seam

The Wrinkled Maker lie

Infection in the sentence breeds

We may inhale Despair

At distenses of centuries

From the Malaria----

--Emily_Dickinson

I stand on the ring

in the dead city

and tie on the red shoes

….

They are not mine,

they are my mother’s,

her mother’s before,

handed down like an heirloom

but hidden like shameful letters.

-          Anne_Sexton

xoxo