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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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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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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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