Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
ADRIENNE RICHIn such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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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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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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