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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Different Guess Mine Sew Skin Stitch Together
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Failure Imagination Political Scientific War
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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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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I came to explore the wreck.
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Came Explore Wreck
I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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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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Healing Making One Space Tell Truth Woman
The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Choice Examination Multiple Number Pencil Sheet
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Don't Learning Trust Use
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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