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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.

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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Androgyne Child Children Dead Describe Infinite Language Living Lost Mind Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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Being Daily Exile Migration Rending Riddled Search Shared Silence Work
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Beast Kind Life Turn
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Creating Possibility Telling Truth Woman
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Breath Heart Short Simple Take
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Courage Defined Fall Fought Recovery Rose
To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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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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Accuracy Arpeggioor Breaking Chance Daring Down Faulting Fugue Leap Practising Sentence Strnghland Transcendence
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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Blackness Children Dawn Light Running Twilight Women
… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Death Depth Female Menses Monster Moon Ocean Ride Sailor Themselves Tide
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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Consciousness Country Denied Nation People Rationalism Rediscovered Therapy Underworld
I came to explore the wreck.
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Came Explore Wreck
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Body Children Genius Imagine Motherhood New Relationship Woman World
It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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