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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.

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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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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 keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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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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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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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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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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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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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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