When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision, Sources

pg 539 "Much, Much more is yet to be done; and university curricula have of course changed very little as a result of all this." With a college community being so liberal comparatively, I don't understand why this writing is still suppressed.

I like how she says, "For one thing, it's a lot easier and less dangerous to talk about other women writers." I've been told this before and you can see it in daily life when you're having a conversation with people. For most people it's always easier to talk about someone else instead of yourself because you're not the one who people are focusing on or judging or whatever it may be.

"Because I was also determined to prove that as a woman poet I could also have what was then defined as a 'full' woman's life, I plunged in my early twenties into marriage and had three children before I was thirty." It's kind of funny how she attests woman's place in writing but she still adapts to the social norm of a woman's role, to me that's kind of hypocritical but maybe she also did what the home-maker life.

"I felt that I had either to consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet," funny because she got such praise from everyone who read her poems but didn't feel adequate, guess even back then you are your worst critic.

When she starts writing again in notebooks, just blurbs, phrases she said, "a part of myself I had felt I was losing," I think that a lot of people feel this way after some point in there lives. I guess for men of an older age you would call it a mid-life crisis.

On pg 549 I couldn't agree more when she says, "that the word 'love' is itself in need of re-vision." With the times that we live in now and 3 out of 5 marriages end in divorce, I don't think love really exists anymore, that's why you're suppose to get married, you love the person through thick and thin.

I really liked her writing, she was very passionate about what she had to say but she also had a worried tone at the end, "as women, we have our work cut out for us." I think that writing is just like art, you're not great or the work you did isn't great until years upon years later, one requirement is you have to be deceased.