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Associations of being restricted, perfectly manicured and dependant.

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Women have come so far yet we still have a long way to go. Once we don't put barriers on ourselves

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Women have come so far yet we still have a long way to go. Once we don't put barriers on ourselves

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She is sweet as honey, but can sting like a bee.

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She is sweet as honey, but can sting like a bee.

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She is as sweet as honey, but can sting like a bee!

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I hate to bring up the extremely contentious issue of this years presidential election, but that is immediately what I think of when I read this post. Not only are we potentially about to elect a female into an office only previously held by males, there have been horrible accusations against the other candidate of sexual assault. When those accusations came to light many people made statements such as "What if that was your wife or daughter or sister?" It took women to come forward and say "Wait, why does it matter what relation an assaulted woman has to a man. They are human beings in their own right and no human being deserves that kind of treatment." I honestly believe that we as women have been oppressed for so long, that we don't even understand our own value. Not only are we humans with all the rights and responsibilities that come with that, we are just starting to understand that "wife" "mother" "daughter" are just titles. They do not define us as a whole, because we are not just a potted plant.

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I hate to bring up the extremely contentious issue of this years presidential election, but that is immediately what I think of when I read this post. Not only are we potentially about to elect a female into an office only previously held by males, there have been horrible accusations against the other candidate of sexual assault. When those accusations came to light many people made statements such as "What if that was your wife or daughter or sister?" It took women to come forward and say "Wait, why does it matter what relation an assaulted woman has to a man. They are human beings in their own right and no human being deserves that kind of treatment." I honestly believe that we as women have been oppressed for so long, that we don't even understand our own value. Not only are we humans with all the rights and responsibilities that come with that, we are just starting to understand that "wife" "mother" "daughter" are just titles. They do not define us as a whole, because we are not just a potted plant.

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I think this poem illustrates how a women has the ability to do anything she sets her mind too.  She is not grounded to doing just one thing because she is woman.  It reminds of women's rights.  That we as women, have the right to do and become anything we want even though sometimes society puts a lot of emphasis on gender roles.  For example, women can't do certain things, like fix a car or do the "handy" work around the house.  These are all seen as things men should be doing and not women.  But times have changed and women can do a lot of things. A woman is definitely not a potted plant.

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I think this poem illustrates how a women has the ability to do anything she sets her mind too.  She is not grounded to doing just one thing because she is woman.  It reminds of women's rights.  That we as women, have the right to do and become anything we want even though sometimes society puts a lot of emphasis on gender roles.  For example, women can't do certain things, like fix a car or do the "handy" work around the house.  These are all seen as things men should be doing and not women.  But times have changed and women can do a lot of things. A woman is definitely not a potted plant.

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A woman is not a potted plant

her roots bound
to the confines
of her house

a woman is not
a potted plant
her leaves trimmed
to the contours
of her sex

a woman is not
a potted plant
her branches
espaliered
against the fences
of her race
her country
her mother
her man
her trained blossom
turning this way
and
that
to follow
the sun
of whoever feeds
and waters
her

a woman
is wilderness
unbounded
holding the future
between each breath
walking the earth
only because
she is free
and not creeper vine
or tree

Nor even honeysuckle
or bee.

~Alice Walker