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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.

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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
ADRIENNE RICH

Great Passion Poetry Survival Theme Women
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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Born Each Help Helping Knowing Live Somehow Somewhere Tomorrow
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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Delicate Honorable Human Love People Process Relationship Self Truth Two Violent
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Integrity Liar Silence Truth Word
TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Collectively Created False Kind Television
An honorable human relationship … 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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Delicate Honorable Human Involved Person Process Relationship Terrifying Truth Violent
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Cutting Enough Flesh Open Ripped Scar
A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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Between Bodies Inside Knowledge Month Preverbal Subliminal Subversive
Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
ADRIENNE RICH

Exist Fear Feminism Infantilism Longing Male Mother Much Purely Remain Son
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Country Difficulty Further Movement Novelist People Phrases Realize Two Wolf
Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
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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Approve Cherish Children Choice Father Made Mind Wanted
Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Born Inspirational Life Planet Rich Life
So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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Accustomed Believed Contempt Endlessly Expecting Inherent Lie Political Still
A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Choose Even Life One Tool Wrong

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