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Recognising the need for a change in patterns

Mar 10, 2012 Letters

 

 

DEAR EDITOR,
When I read the recent news item about organisations reaffirming support for women, as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, I remembered Hillary Clinton mentioning in her book ‘Living History’, how impressed she was by a poem titled ‘Silence’, written by Anasuya Sengupta, the Rhodes Scholar, presented to her when she visited Delhi, India, in the1990s.
Some of our women might have observed or experienced the patterns mentioned in the poem, which so moved Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Here is the poem:

“Silence”

Too many women in too many countries
speak the same language of silence.
My grandmother was always silent, always aggrieved
Only her husband had the cosmic right (or so it was said)
to speak and be heard.
They say it is different now.
(After all, I am always vocal and my grandmother
thinks I talk too much)
But sometimes I wonder.
When a woman shares her thoughts, as some women do,
graciously, it is allowed.
When a woman fights for power, as all women would like
to, quietly or loudly, it is questioned.
And yet, there must be freedom — if we are to speak
And yes, there must be power — if we are to be heard.
And when we have both (freedom and power) let us now be
understood.
We seek only to give words to those who cannot speak
(too many women in too many countries)
I seek to forget the sorrows of my grandmother’s silence.

ANASUYA SENGUPTA

Geralda Dennison

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