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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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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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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Bodies Body Mind Mother Women
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Choose Circumstance End Feel Loser Responsible
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Country Own Patriotism Soul Wrestles
The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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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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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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Art Compost Concern Feel Field Flourish Guess Isolate Need Rich Unheard Writing
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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Art Artist Channel Clogged Concern Song Struggle Woman
What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Believe Government Represent Same Thing
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Chamber Desire Feeling Locked Poetry Possibility Recharge Zone
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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Collective Consciousness Need Solution Support Value Withdrawal
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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Attempt Correspond Dangerously Daughter Mother Personalities Personality

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