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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

Adrienne Rich

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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General History Male Merely Over Seen Themselves White Writing
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Concentration Language ower Poetry Power Relationship Ultimate Universe
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Artist Dishonoured Honor Legal People President
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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Children Enter Freedom Man Mother Room Think Travel Wife Work
In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Bringing Console Create Sustain Vision Woman
Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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Community Intelligence Intimacy Motherhood Power Thinking Transformed
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Abusive Begin Heal Individual Psychic Society Stories Want
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
I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Art Collective Create Liberation Nonviolent Politics Power Social Struggle Work
An honorable human relationship … 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 Involved Person Process Relationship Terrifying Truth Violent
To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Darkness Found Light Rejecting Treasure
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Conscious Cutting Interval Light Profane Revelation Self Stopped Time
We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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Chosen Enter Envying Freedom Herself Identifies Imagine Room Think
But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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Envying Imagination Imagine Place Possibilities Struggle Survival Unresigned
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
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Connection Feminist Force Inspirational Motivational Planet Problem Transforming Women

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