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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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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 you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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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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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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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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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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