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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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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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