Author: Ruth Ozeki
Quotes of Author: Ruth Ozeki
The day the mountains move has come. Or so I say, though no one will believe me. The mountains were merely asleep for a while. But in ages past, they had moved, as if they were on fire. If you don't believe me, that's fine with me. All I ask is that you believe this and only this, That at this very moment, women are awakening from their deep slumber. If I could but write entirely in the first person, I, who am a woman. If I could write entirely in the first person, I, I. -Yosano Akiko These are the first lines from Yosano Akiko's longer poem Sozorogoto {Rambling Thoughts}, which were first published in the inaugural issue of the feminist magazine Seit {Bluestocking}, in September 1911. book-quote
