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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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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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