The museum contains a room dedicated to the Emirati woman poet Ousha Bint Khalifa -- known as the Girl of Arabia, a gallery devoted to temporary art exhibitions, a collection of Arabian fragrances and oils, traditional jewelery and a women's study center.

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At this very moment, somewhere out there, a young woman is telling her parents that she wants to be a poet.

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This time, he's a poet, Attilio Giovanni, who pines after the woman of his dreams, Vittoria, played by Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi.

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The first American woman to obtain a pain-free birth, Fanny Longfellow, the wife of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was severely criticized for her choice.

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