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“i bleed
every month.
but
do not die.
how am i
not
magic. — Nayyirah Waheed

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“Don’t say, ‘I want to be a writer.’ Instead say, ‘I am a writer.’”

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I was a young female who wrote magical realism, and he was expecting pink powdery puffs of sentences, of lightness, of beauty.

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Why do we need to talk about women writers as opposed to just writers? First off, there are the statistics, reports, and articles that all address the gender gap in publishing and marketing of women writers.

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Know that you’re an inimitable person, unable to be defined by age or race or gender, but be proud of your gender, just the same.