<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397193" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why I was sent to Boarding School</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">to lengthen my hemlines and straighten<br>my morals</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because I was difficult</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because my parents were tired</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to lock me in chastity's cupboard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to Latinize me, teach me manners,<br>give me a good solid dose of fear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to place over my fact the mask<br>of stoic cheerfulness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to take away my swagger<br>tame my wild hair and rebellious tongue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because that's where the doctors<br>sent their daughters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because the nuns would know what to do<br>with a girl like me<br>because they would do their best<br>to pour me into the mold<br>with china limbs and lace collars<br>and because they had their fingers crossed<br>that I would come out nice<br>like a floral centerpiece you could<br>put right into the center<br>of your dinner party, gleaming</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as heads of cut flowers<br>bobbed there, grateful, arranged,<br>blinking and nodding with grace<br>saying yes, yes, turn me<br>and they would turn me,<br>from what I was<br>into what they wanted</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not the wolf girl<br>not soaring beast with smoking hair<br>but a tame Hereford<br>amiable, smooth child they could love<br>with no thoughts that were devil-born<br>a flat good prize of a girl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and there where I looked<br>in a morning mirror<br>I would encounter myself<br>calm, bovine, accepting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beloved of Mother Superior<br>cherished of God the Father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Geraldine+Connolly">Geraldine Connolly</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=397193" data-title="Why I was sent to Boarding School de Geraldine Connolly" data-description="to lengthen my hemlines and straighten my morals because I was difficult because my parents were tired to lock me in chastity's cupboard to Latinize me, teach me manners, give me a good solid dose of fear to place over my fact the mask of sto..."></div> </div> </div>

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