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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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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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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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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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