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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

Adrienne Rich

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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Biography Censored Collection Image Letter Lying Memories Omitted Undepiched Unnamed
The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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Assumption Culture Men Patriarchy Real Subgroup Women World
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
A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Choose Even Life One Tool Wrong
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Art Assume Blood Falsely Force Inspiration Possession Question Relation Song Supernatural Universal
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
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Important Long Optimism Pessimism Possess Term
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Art Decorate Dinner Hold Hostage Mean Nothing Power Table
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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Again Delta Direction Flow Grasp One River Springing Story Thinking
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Choose Intelligence Love Splitting Time
The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Door Limit Male Politics Return Revolution Same Tolerance
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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Blackness Children Dawn Light Running Twilight Women
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Feeling Inspirational Pride Tricky
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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Creativity Daughter Father Hack Lesbian
The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Body Feeling Political Touch

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