"Opening our mouths and saying our words, breaking the cycle of the "unknowable," seems to me right now an essential tool for our survival, on our own terms, and for that of our daughters and granddaughters. We can only become stronger as we build upon each other's experiences and strengthen that repository of woman-knowledge (also community-knowledge) of which we are the rightful inheritors."
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Women born in the 1940sWomen authorsNovelists from Trinidad and TobagoNon-fiction authors from Trinidad and TobagoPoets from Trinidad and Tobago
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