I Want to Laugh, I Want to Cry: Poems on Women's Feelings.

I read this book for the first time in the spring of 1974. I was at a that very hard stage in ones life, the teenage years. I just knew no one else felt the way I did. Then my sister gave me this book, and after reading it I realized someone had felt exactly the same way I had. After I read this book I fell in love with poetry and that love has lasted through out my life so far. I even started writing my own thoughts and feelings down as a result of reading these poems. I have read this book several times in the last 24 years, and my feelings have not changed. Everytime I read it I come to love it even more.