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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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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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