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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Adrienne Rich

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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Alike Biological Bodies Charges Energy Giving Human Nature Nothing Probably Resonant Two
Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Brotherhood Interest Least Loyal Men Own Self Since View World
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Consciousness Fathered Insider Institutions Masculine Really Woman
Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Bear Destruction Longer Scar Witness
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Abusive Begin Heal Individual Psychic Society Stories Want
And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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Couse Deflect Juice Mind Respect Ritualized Soul Trivialization Word
In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Bringing Console Create Sustain Vision Woman
The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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Cub Dead Herding Long Nineteen Omen Survive Twilight Vixen
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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Believe Fear Necessity Poetry Power Reason Trying
The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Amnesia Liar Lying Silence Suffer Unconscious
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Connectedness Creativity Human Love Sense Sexually
Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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Angry Darkest Embittered Grief Most Stricken
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Choose Circumstance End Feel Loser Responsible
It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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Alone Disturb Enrapture Monster Monstrous People Speak Themselves

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