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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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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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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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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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