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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 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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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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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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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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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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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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