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Here come the waterworks...

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Thank you We sneak in Symbols tears alas shmoop veronica

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franco will recall is the one who spoke a lot

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about personal experience Who's interested in celebrating the range of

00:16

experiences and two included like her own tears in her

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work and queen elizabeth the first when she talks about

00:23

being made of melting snow right in the poem not

00:26

in her speech in the poem absolutely not In the

00:28

speech to the troops she is evoking this idea of

00:31

tears and softness and frailty It also appears all the

00:36

time in julian of norwich these images of like bodily

00:39

excretion and in march really well all right marjorie camp

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she's always walking around crying so women's emotional illness and

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outward displays of emotion can happen all the time And

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these texts because it's a cliche right it's like saying

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that's used to hold women down and women are also

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trying to deal with that and figure out whether tears

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are always dead or whether it was going to valuable

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expressions of agency right today Absolutely And i think that's

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where veronica franco is key probably sums it up quite

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nicely Tears are many things And when women cry it

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can mean many things and that is fine How have

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tears shown up in the works of various authors How

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does society typically treat women who cry According to franco

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what do tears mean Studies show crying is useful in 00:01:32.349 --> [endTime] times of drought

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