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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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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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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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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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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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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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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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