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5 Disturbing But Inspirational Poems For Emotionally Exhausted Women
Who Think No One Understands The Hell They’ve Been Through
When will we be heard the first time we speak, instead of resorting to exhaustion, to something so utterly disturbing?
Movies like, Gone Girl are brilliant, you can’t help but have a little satisfaction at the representation of a woman who feels she must go the extra mile to get her needs met. I read a short story for a school assignment called, The Yellow Wall Paper outlining a woman’s descent into madness while under the care of her physician husband; to this day it sends chills down my spine.
These are 5 stories that touch the edge of madness, outlining the cries of women everywhere.
1Porcelain dolls were the fetish of girls before Barbie became mainstream. They have delicate ivory skin made of, well-porcelain. They are often dressed in Victorian style clothing, not meant to be played with, but collected and put away. Likewise, the woman is represented as a porcelain doll, delicate, beautiful, an object of desire- she isn’t heard in the fullness of her voice, over time she is chipped away, but these women can be healed.
Porcelain Doll
