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PARADISE
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Lalla Ded, the 12th century Kashmiri mystic poet, said that poetry gave her the "daring to take hold / of the darkness and tear it down / and cut it into little pieces." And thus with women’s education, because of which they have not allowed ideologies, even those they might sympathize with, to deprive them of the right to cut the darkness into little pieces.