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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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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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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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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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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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