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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.

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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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Afford Artist Deceiving Self Sentimental Serious
I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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Generation Idea Irrelevant Raised Succumb Tech Television
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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Art Craft Each Everyone Mean Poetry Something World Writing
There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Complexity Increasing One System Thing Truth
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Creating Possibility Telling Truth Woman
Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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Brain Burn Deviant Girl Grammar Men Message Norm Standard Thinking Young
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Depended Life Must Read Writing
Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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Another Art Being Desire Element Existence Grief Human Life Love
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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Chosen Enter Envying Freedom Herself Identifies Imagine Room Think
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Bridges Especially Interested Line Long Poem Scoring Space Thinking
he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Death Depth Female Menses Monster Moon Ocean Ride Sailor Themselves Tide
To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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Culture Demanding Integrity Politics Power Question Respect Validated Women
It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
ADRIENNE RICH

Break Human Important Isolation Justice
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Bear Destruction Longer Scar Witness
It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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Alone Disturb Enrapture Monster Monstrous People Speak Themselves
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will

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