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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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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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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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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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