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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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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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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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