Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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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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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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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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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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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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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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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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