Rachael Owings
Head of Household

“Without self confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority - it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney...over other people.”
Virginia Woolf - “a Room of One's Own”

She steps on us-
calls us names as if we were
nothing.

She makes the rules for us-
says if we disobey we'll get
nothing.

She cries no tear of love for us-
expects us to "live up," all for
nothing.

She has nothing to give,
but we all listen,
do what she says - what she asks - what she wants

Puppets only, as if in a game-
around for her pleasure only,
she hasn't even given us names.

Powerless-
by speaking up we lose her,
doing nothing we lose ourselves~