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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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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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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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