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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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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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