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No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.
The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,
they happen in our lives like car crashes,
books that change us, neighborhoods
we move into and come to love.
Tristan und Isolde is scarcely the story,
women at least should know the difference
between love and death. No poison cup,
no penance.

-poet Adrienne Rich on love, via Brainpickings

(That last line kills me.—Jessica H.)

Filed under adrienne rich poetry love feminism no poison cup no penance

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