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Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.
Warsan Shire
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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
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Republic of Kenya
Women
Locked
Come
Kitchen
Sometimes
Grief
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Rooms
Hammers
Love
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Apathy
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Bathroom
Mother
Bedroom
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