<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373868" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Margaret Fuller Slack</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would have been as great as George Eliot<br>But for an untoward fate.<br>For look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit,<br>Chin resting on hand, and deep-set eyes --<br>Gray, too, and far-searching.<br>But there was the old, old problem:<br>Should it be celibacy, matrimony or unchastity?<br>Then John Slack, the rich druggist, wooed me,<br>Luring me with the promise of leisure for my novel,<br>And I married him, giving birth to eight children,<br>And had no time to write.<br>It was all over with me, anyway,<br>When I ran the needle in my hand<br>While washing the baby's things,<br>And died from lock-jaw, an ironical death.<br>Hear me, ambitious souls,<br>Sex is the curse of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373868" data-title="Margaret Fuller Slack de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I would have been as great as George Eliot But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit, Chin resting on hand, and deep-set eyes -- Gray, too, and far-searching. But there was the old, old problem: Should it be celib..."></div> </div> </div>

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