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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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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
Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Lonelier Marriage Solitude
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Choice People Power Sacred Transformation
A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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Book Chance Distribute Editor never Poem Select
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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Air Animal Blazing Budding City Dappled Exuberantly Imagined Passion Scar Sulfuric Sycamores Tree
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Aquariums Bodies Bring Essential Human Mean More Repossession Seizing Society Women
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Beyond Daughter Exchanged Female Mother Survival Transmitted Two Verbally
If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Been Compared Elder Generation Teach Worship
It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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Changeable Daily Earth Eternal Indestructible Life Live Spawn Swallow Threating Unstable

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