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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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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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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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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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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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