I AM
Martha Warner 
Martha Warner shares the women who have inspired her with their writing.
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I am
Darkness haunting me…like Emily
Unsettling chastising me…like Leslie
Potential captivating me…like J.K.
Curiosity endangering me…like Agatha
Tradition comforting me…like Laura
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I am
Poverty rooting me…like Rebecca
Madness settling inside me…like Charlotte
Revenge justifying for me…like Susan
Crossroads defining me…like Judy
Community empowering me…like Amy
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I am
Lenguaje me fascina…el mismo de Sandra
Trauma changing me…like Roxanne
Motherhood becoming me…like Ursula
Atrocities angering me…like Margaret
Nature energizing me…like Willa
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I am
Conformity bothering me…like Fanny
Strength emboldening me…like Emma
Intelligence interweaving me…like Muriel
Vindication provoking me…like Mary
Voice motivating me…like Amanda
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I am pieces of all the women who came before me.
I am pieces for all the women who follow me.
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Virginia Woolf
Kate Chopin
Maya Angelou
Lurlene McDaniel
Zora Neale Hurston
Emily Dickinson
Leslie Marmon Silko
JK Rowling
Agatha Christie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rebecca Harding Davis
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Susan Glaspell
Judy Blume
Amy Tan
Sandra Cisneros
Roxanne Gay
Ursula Le Guin
Margaret Atwood
Willa Cather
Fanny Fern
Emma Donoghue
Muriel Barbary
Mary Shelley
Amanda Gorman
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Categories: story-telling