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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

Adrienne Rich

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
ADRIENNE RICH

Again Delta Direction Flow Grasp One River Springing Story Thinking
Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Beauty Invisible Made Outlawed Possible Remind Represented Seem Separation Show
It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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Destructiveness Dominated Male Refusal Self Society
To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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Adapt Conquer Cultural Degrade Fullness Intention Meaning Passive
Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Bodies Body Mind Mother Women
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Choices Chosen Decision Real Require Revolution Woman
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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Among Counted Down Must None Perhaps Sit Weep
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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Believe Consciousness Fathered Insider Inspiring Institution Masculine Really War Woman
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Failure Imagination Political Scientific War
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Living Money No Stories Tell Wit
… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Free Hate Night Nothing Notion Play Sacred Writing
It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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Children Day Eye Message Mothers Smile Stroking Read Touch
“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Each Explore Other Society Stake Stories Want

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