The Castration Of Women Has Been Carried

If A Woman Never Lets Herself Go, How Will She Ever Know How Far She Might Have Got?

Gillard Is As Likeable As Rudd Is Charmless. She Is Self-deprecating; He Is Ludicrously Vainglorious. She Is A Mistress Of Understatement; He Is A Ranter.

So Far It Has Been Assumed That The Only Pregnancies Which Are Aborted Are Accidental Ones And The Only Foetuses Destroyed Those Whose Mothers Could Not Bear The Thought Of Their Becoming Children. In A Just World This Would Be The Case, But The World Is Far From Just. Too Many Women Are Forced To Abort By Poverty, By Their Menfolk, By Their Parents. Poverty Has Many Faces; It May Be The Poverty Of The Young, The Unmarried, The Student, The Unemployed, The Female Or A Combination Of These.

We In The West Do Not Refrain From Childbirth Because We Are Concerned About The Population Explosion Or Because We Feel We Cannot Afford Children, But Because We Do Not Like Children.

Poetry Exists Partly To Undermine The Certainties Of An Accepted Intellectual System, By Opening A Fissure Of Awareness At Which The Reality Of The Unconquered World May Enter.