la llorona

I was poking around in the old blogspot version of nina turns 40, and I came across this, which I posted a little over two years ago.  Luckily, my own lacrimal output is far less than it was in those days, but I am still always moved by this excerpt.  It's the late Caroline Knapp paraphrasing Germaine Greer in her book Appetites:

"Women weep, Greer believes, because they feel powerless, and because they are exhausted and overworked and lonely. Women weep because their own needs are unsatisfied, continually swept into the background as they tend to the needs of others. They weep becaue the men in their lives so often seem incapable of speaking the language of intimacy, and because their children grow up and become distant, and becaue they are expected to acquiesce to this distance, and because they live lives of chronically lowered expectations and chronic adjustment to the world of men, the power and strength of a woman's emotions considered pathological or hysterical or sloppy, her interest in connection considered trivial, her core being never quite seen or known or fully appreciated, her true self out of alignment with so much that is valued and recognized and worshipped in the world around her, her love, in a word, unrequited."

Comments

[Chris Clarke]

Que cuando las mueve el viento, llorona, parece que están llorando.

[nina]

Desde que lo puse aqui he comenzado de llorar mas y mas.