The Inevitable Cost of a Woman's Voice

It's worth any price. I'm sure of it.

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Jan Richardson, one of my all time favorite poets, wrote a piece called Having Taken the Fruit. Though the whole thing is definitely worth reading, here are the last two verses: 

It took a long time to figure out
that my stifling silence
was not a path
back to a paradise
where I could never live. 

I finally learned to listen