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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Delicate Honorable Human Love People Process Relationship Self Truth Two Violent
Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Assumption Elemental Entangled Lurk Mesh Motherhood Relation
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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Cutting Enough Flesh Open Ripped Scar
Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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Country Poets have Unravelling Violent Wonderful
The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Actual Another Illuminate Important Most Possibilities Woman
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Important Long Optimism Pessimism Possess Term
Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Birth Child Children Grow Up Waiting
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Change Invitation Live Threat
The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Another Mind Obscurity Passion Singling Tale
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Country Difficulty Further Movement Novelist People Phrases Realize Two Wolf
A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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Avid Breast Cave Exist Grass Helpless Huge Leg Martyred Purpose Snake Son Swamp Teeth
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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Birth Code Cultural Giving Law Professional Religious
The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Create Fearfully Impulse Real Silence Terribly Tunnel Voice
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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Casual Daily Danger Flow Forgetting Generation Grandchildren Jogged Life Lying Memories Storytelling Trick
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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Cub Dead Herding Long Nineteen Omen Survive Twilight Vixen
Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Changing Language Mean Reality Writing

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