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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.

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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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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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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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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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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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