"I did not know that 'poetess' was an……" — Margaret Atwood

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I… - Margaret Atwood
"I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me."

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