I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company
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