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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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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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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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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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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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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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