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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.

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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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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Darkness Found Light Rejecting Treasure
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Aquariums Bodies Bring Essential Human Mean More Repossession Seizing Society Women
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Choice People Power Sacred Transformation
Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
ADRIENNE RICH

All Equal Grief Tear Women
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
ADRIENNE RICH

Dried Drop Dust Grief Heart Lip Refused River Wear
Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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Breaking Broken Historian might Poem Question Real Silence Tended
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival
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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Carpet Complexity Incraeding Look Pattern Surface System Truth Unseen

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