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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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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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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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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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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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