A. Mueller

“Men did not respect anger in a woman. They labeled it weakness.””

“You’ll find that what you can bear increases a great deal when you are not offered any other choice.””

“Now that we’ve given our hearts awayWith the bric-a-brac, we want them back.Now we look for them secondhand, Someone else’s, in the old songs, The slowly unfolding novelsWe never had time for. Hearts That taught themselves to fly;…overstuffed hearts, still leakingDowny secrets like feathers.We want someone to say, ‘I give you my heart’, meaning,‘Summer and winter’, meaning‘All my time in the this world’…””