Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Illinois is expected to pass a campaign disclosure law after 1½ years of sitting on it. An Illinois Republican Representative says that ethics legislation, because of Watergate, has become "like motherhood - there is no way you can be against...
...first person masculine. Now the poetry is fully mature, redolent of intense joys and great suffering, aflame with radical and sexual politics, crying the lessons of a militant feminism. Now the poetess, still neatly and modestly dressed but in blue-jeans, has grown through the experiences of marriage and motherhood, and has sought her new mentors in historic female figures, Near Eastern cultures, and the victims of public and private injustices...
...experiences coming at me, and I tried to break out of the strict forms I had been using. I sensed my need for a new voice, but this was a slow, unconscious process. I wanted to write the kind of poetry that my experiences demanded." These experiences were marriage, motherhood, and "the necessity to redefine myself. I couldn't be the 'good student' any more, the precocious younger poet. I was becoming a woman and was confronted with the conflict between being a woman, a wife, a mother, and what I wanted to do with my life...
...affords them small pleasure. But they give themselves to different men in the doomed hope that they will find their identity at the point where all the lines of male force intersect. Even motherhood fails to bring Moravian women alive. Mirrors appear again and again, mocking the ladies who stand be fore them for being less real than their reflections. In Moravia's world, the furniture has more personality than the people who sit upon...
...nothing sacred? Apple pie went out with calories, motherhood has been limited, and in this sacred moment as we honor our P.O.W.s you desecrate and belittle them. "They had obeyed orders, dealt in death and presumably understood the odds and consequences." Let me be counted with those who view this devotion to duty with heartfelt thanks, for they have preserved the very freedom of this country so that you may publicly print insults the very first week they are free...