Carolina QuotesThe desert is a metaphor. For how long women have endured. Like creosote. Waiting for the rains. We are the rains. (p 254)
Bettina Aptheker Carolinian
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- Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989)
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- 1989
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