"Your world is as big as you make it."
"The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars."
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Source: Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart Of A Woman”
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