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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

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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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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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