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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Adrienne Rich

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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Catering Controlling Erotic Guilt Heart Marble Mother Patriarchy Provoking Riddem Son
A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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Between Bodies Inside Knowledge Month Preverbal Subliminal Subversive
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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Condition Exempt Human Oppression Race Servitude Sex Speak
Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Art Community Creative Energy Enormous Hunger Solitude Women Work
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Art Assume Blood Falsely Force Inspiration Possession Question Relation Song Supernatural Universal
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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Blackness Children Dawn Light Running Twilight Women
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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Believe Choice Help Keep Language Life Move Paralysed Respect
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Delicate Honorable Human Love People Process Relationship Self Truth Two Violent
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Free Hate Night Nothing Notion Play Sacred Writing
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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Burn Desire Kill Living might Poem Remind Revolutionary Theorize Wick
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Becoming Border Correct Dream Escaping Political Politically Showed Sign
Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Death Diminish Diminishes Woman
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Counted Down Inspirational Sit Warrior Weep
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Able Anger Except Inward Nail Rusted Touch Women
Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger

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