A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.

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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.

Adrienne Rich

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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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Dehumanized Gew Itself Know Obsessional Otherness Primarily Race Topic White
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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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Even One
Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.

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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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Breath Colon Double Indication Metrically Musical Notation Pause Slash Urgency
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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Correspond Dangerously Daughter Personalities
To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Found Rejecting
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.

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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Arctic Deaadnededness Doors Leftism Male Word
Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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Aspiration Easy Mean Responsibility Sell Shallow
The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.

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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Fearfully Real Terribly Tunnel
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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