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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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