a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned - Ani DiFranco

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

long before medical science came along to offer any compensation for the entrapments of the modern social design. When a woman chooses whether or not to reproduce, the earth itself is choosing. With or without confirmation from man, this is the reality that the earth lives every day.

I used to be a superhero.
No one could touch me, not even myself.
You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into,
And now look at me, I am just like everybody else.