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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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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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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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