Women in Literture

What means women and literature to me?

It means struggle, education, work, literacy, space, brilliance, creativity, challenge, prejudice, fight, fun, freedom, words, words, words, voice, power---loss, gain, lost, survive, sisters who could but could not, mothers who wished but wanted, roles and reassignments, hidden faces behind fictitious names---that which will never be because it never was---that which was born and that which was killed---words written, words erased, words imagined---Women in Literature---women writing, women living, women reading, women succeeding--that means women in literature to me.