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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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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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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- 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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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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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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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 woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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Experience is always larger than language.
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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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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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