I am an emotional creature

I love being a girl.

I can feel what you're feeling

as you're feeling it inside

the feeling

before.

I am an emotional creature.

Things do not come to me

as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas.

They pulse through my organs and legs

and burn up my ears....

I am an emotional creature.

I am connected to everything and everyone.

I was born like that.

Don't you dare say all negative that it's a

teenage thing

or it's because I'm a girl.

These feelings make me better

They make me ready.

They make me present.

They make me strong. ...

This is not extreme.

It's a girl thing.

What we would all be

if the big door inside us flew open.

Don't tell me not to cry

To calm it down

Not to be so extreme

To be reasonable.

I am an emotional creature.

It's how the earth got made.

How the wind continues to pollinate.

You don't tell the Atlantic Ocean

to behave....

I am emotional.

I am an emotional, devotional,

incandotional creature.

And I love, hear me,

love love love

being a girl.

--excerpted from "I Am An Emotional Creature", Eve Ensler