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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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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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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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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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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Death Diminish Diminishes Woman
When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Aquariums Bodies Bring Essential Human Mean More Repossession Seizing Society Women
It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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Changeable Daily Earth Eternal Indestructible Life Live Spawn Swallow Threating Unstable
The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Break Overcome Overcoming Poem Silence
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Breath Heart Short Simple Take
Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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Enough Language Longer Personal
I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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Art Everything Poet Poetic Reading Thinking Writing

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