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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.

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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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