Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meant it but not really." Meant what? That it's fine for women to mouth complaints about their position in society as long as they don't do anything serious about it? That one or two or three of them sitting together is all right, but any more than that means conspiracy is afoot? Or were these one-night transvestites unconsciously trying to tell us that they're not too sure about their own self-images? "They said they wanted to talk about all-female problems. We thought that those were problems you wouldn't talk about at the table...
...those days you were called a 'baby' dean and you were allowed to attend meetings of the Board and listen to the cases being discussed by the senior tutors and the 'big' deans," Epps says. "John Monro told me that I should keep my mouth shut for one year and just listen...
...worse than the whore's mouth now. The once unawakened young girl, now frightened by the nightmare of her world, aware. The outcast but indispensable woman, the constant worker. Her mouth. When most of the world has fallen into soft sleep, wrapped in that vague warmth of loved ones, or familiar loneliness, or expensive compromise; this mouth, the whore's mouth sucks again on the lipstick reddened cigarette, and begins to harden. The lips unspeaking cry 'fuck you too'. To the ever demanding flaccid phallus, and the rain of sterility...
This is the final word on the mouth. It is useless now to anyone in its unbending hate. It is useless to her in its deadness. And if thy right arm offend thee...
Pieces of prayers came to her mouth and floated away. Pieces of prayers from other days when the world had become flat and this pounding in her bones had begun...