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We have lived with violence far too long.

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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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