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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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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Collective Consciousness Need Solution Support Value Withdrawal
To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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Adapt Conquer Cultural Degrade Fullness Intention Meaning Passive
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Monster Sleep Think Thinking Woman
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Choose Intelligence Love Splitting Time
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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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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Since Time Week Wrap Years Missing Young
Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger
I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Bad Ass Believe Children Endangered Feminist Physically Society
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Create Fearfully Impulse Real Silence Terribly Tunnel Voice
Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Death Diminish Diminishes Woman
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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Begin Brutalized Dignity Empowering Hope People Powerless Society Transform Trying
There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Carpet Complexity Incraeding Look Pattern Surface System Truth Unseen
A language is a map of our failures.
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Failure Language Map

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