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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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