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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

Adrienne Rich

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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Emerged Feminist Historical Justice Lived Past Present Received Tended Thinking Work
To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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Culture Demanding Integrity Politics Power Question Respect Validated Women
Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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Children Love Loving Past Purpose Run Running Rush Soul Worth
I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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Approve Cherish Children Choice Father Made Mind Wanted
Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Absolute Country Failure Imagination People Political Scientific War
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Another Body Live Ourselves Sense Skin Surpass
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Crippling Fever Love Loved Unlive
No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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Exercise Goes History Learning Music Natural Simple Study Told
Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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Knew Mother Nothing Prepared Realization State Uncertain
There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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Art Country Formula Human Justice m Relationship Overall Separate Simple Think
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
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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Children Day Inspiring Mother Strike Tied Unionize Worker
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Culture Interstices Language Lying Powerful Secret
The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Apparated Asking Crucial Movement Political Voice Women

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