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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 keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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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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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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