“Someday beneath some hard
Capricious star —
Spreading its light a little
Over far,
We'll know you for the woman
That you are.”

—  Djuna Barnes

From Fifth Avenue Up
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)

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American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892–1982

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