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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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