American Pit Bull

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    “Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
    —Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    “the hind
    stepped down

    into the pit of
    the empty
    flowerpot”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “Not glad, lifeless tycoon, nor sorry feel
    For neither Bull nor Bear attends your way....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)