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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.

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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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