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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.

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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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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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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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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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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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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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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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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Door Limit Male Politics Return Revolution Same Tolerance
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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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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