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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

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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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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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