There were many women who fought to make a revolution within the Revolution, since power is held by men and they won’t give it away by themselves. - Daisy Zamora

I shuddered
like the earth split open by lightning.

women were “sold out” by the men that they fought alongside, because those men were uncapable of understanding — much less articulating — a different concept of power.

I believe that all of us are political, in a very broad sense, and – and if I write about a – a housewife that is battered or that is disdained, that’s politics, it’s my understanding of politics, you see. And if I write about women’s issues in general or about a – a waitress that – that has been mistreated by life, that’s politics. So I have been writing these poems through which I – I want to speak for women, you know, to ad, I pretend to – to interpret the feelings of my fellow women and translate them to poetry