A few (just a few) of my favorite female authors

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--bell hooks--


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--marjane satrapi--


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--arundhati roy--

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--carolyn forche--

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--edwidge danticat--

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--Sahar Khalifeh--

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--Sandra Cisneros--

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--trinh t. minh-ha--

Others I found a heck of a time coming up with images for include:
Alice Walker, Wang Ping (poet), Elizabeth Kim (author of "Ten Thousand Sorrows"), and Adrienne Rich.

...There's something magical that happens in a perfectly written line. Something that transcends and erases time, space, difference and despair. All of these authors have that magical ability to reach out to readers and grab them, transporting them to a childhood in Iran, a classroom in Harlem, a film about Vietnam, a poem, a play, a novel, a single word...

peace!