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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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