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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Centuries Country Marriage Revolution Witch Worker
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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Believe Fear Necessity Poetry Power Reason Trying
A language is a map of our failures.
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Failure Language Map
I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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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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Began Feel Heard Movement Resonating Voice
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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Cost Forcibly Heterosexuality Imposed Poverty Subliminally Woman
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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Brotherhood Denying Law Less Man Nobel Prize Self Sister tenure Winning Woman
… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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Assumption Drenched Identity Knowledge More Ourselves Refusal Search Women
he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Death Depth Female Menses Monster Moon Ocean Ride Sailor Themselves Tide
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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Affirmation Culture Desolation Great History Human Kind Magic Mattered People Period Through Violence
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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Around Block Building Collapse Landscape Memories Notebook Prayer
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
ADRIENNE RICH

Complacency Despair Disregarded Encounter Erased Extent Hear Help Matter Numbness Self Selves Society Unvoiced
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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Feminism Intelligent Lying Movement Render Thinking Trying
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Bridges Especially Interested Line Long Poem Scoring Space Thinking

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