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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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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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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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