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Sister quotes are great for birthday cards, just-thinking-about-you texts or even a reminder that you still love them even when they annoy you. Read on for some of the best sister quotes out there.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a writer who focuses on the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist. This collection, now considered a classic volume of Lorde's most influential works of non-fiction ...
Here, 21 of the funniest, mushiest and totally candid quotes about sisterhood that wil Even though she sometimes drives you crazy (like when she steals your clothes), you can’t imagine life ...
Sweet Sister Quotes “A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” —Isadora James “Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the ...
Forten Purvis's poem conversely plays on white women's "fairness" as a "virtue" or more contemporarily put, a mark of privilege and further calls for white women to use their "virtue" for activism in the defense of their Black sisters. [15] It is suggested that Forten Purvis's poetry, transforms the female listener into an agent of change. [15]
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.
After college, Greenfield began writing poetry and songs in the 1950s while working in a civil service job. In 1962, after years of submitting her work, her first poem was finally accepted for publication. In 1972, she published the first of her 48 children's books, including picture books, novels, poetry and biographies.
Women like Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) and Anne Sexton (1928–1974) provided a feminist version of the Confessional Poets' poetics, which worked alongside feminist texts of the day, like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, to "address taboo subjects and social limitations that plagued American women" (although Plath died before The Feminine ...