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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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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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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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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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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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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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[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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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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