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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

Adrienne Rich

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Counted Down Inspirational Sit Warrior Weep
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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Around Block Building Collapse Landscape Memories Notebook Prayer
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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Complacency Despair Disregarded Encounter Erased Extent Hear Help Matter Numbness Self Selves Society Unvoiced
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Feeling Inspirational Pride Tricky
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Country Danger Present Tense
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Biology Ignorance Key Ourselves Powerlessness
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Country Difficulty Further Movement Novelist People Phrases Realize Two Wolf
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Complicated Delusion Fake False Journey Memories Naming Past People Real
We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Fascism Great Group Learned People Psychologist Relationship Repression Sexual Support Wrote
What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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Amid Country Dysfunction Finding Increasing Society
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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Art Craft Each Everyone Mean Poetry Something World Writing
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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Challenge Compensatory Freedom Intellectual Nonexclusionary Political Simply Structure Studies Women
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
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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Aak Claim Goes Myself On Touch Vision
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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Children Enter Freedom Man Mother Room Think Travel Wife Work
No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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Exercise Goes History Learning Music Natural Simple Study Told

Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

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