If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
ADRIENNE RICH
Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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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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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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