Strangers are an endangered species.

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Strangers are an endangered species.

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Bagwalas

Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Description Language
Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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Loving Running
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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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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Deepest Iscrucial Lesbian Radical
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Feminist Transforming
To do something very common, in my own way.

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To do something very common, in my own way.
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My Own Something Way
Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Invisible Made Outlawed Represented Seem Separation
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Until
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.

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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Daughter Exchanged Transmitted Two Verbally
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Able Inward Nail Rusted
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

ADRIENNE RICH

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Deceiving Self
The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

ADRIENNE RICH

The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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Assumption Culture Patriarchy Real Subgroup
Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Back Chapter Critical Entering Eye Looking Seeing Text
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings

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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Splitting
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

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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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Daughter Dwelt Kingdom Son
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.

ADRIENNE RICH

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
ADRIENNE RICH

Gay Organized Priestly Profession Talking Uncomfortable Use
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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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 Made Wanted

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