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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

Adrienne Rich

if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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Bias Drifting History Male Myth Response Similarly Unanchored Unaware Veering Women
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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Bodies Expediency Gaslight Instinct Mind Truth
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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Act Back Chapter Critical Direction Entering Eye Eyes Fresh History Looking Old Seeing Survival Text Vision Women
It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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Beginning End May Moving November Solistice
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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Ambivalence Blissful Gratification Murderous Nerves Resentment Suffering
Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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Aspiration Easy Fall Mean Refuse Responsibility Sell Shallow Solution Talent Yourself
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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Born Each Help Helping Knowing Live Somehow Somewhere Tomorrow
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Language Naming Oppression Power Silence Violence World
Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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Abroad Alike Heart Prediction Regardless Weather
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
The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Create Fearfully Impulse Real Silence Terribly Tunnel Voice
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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Connection Feminist Force Inspirational Motivational Planet Problem Transforming Women
When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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Looking Mirror Nothing Someone Speak Teacher World
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Back Carbon Coming Head Keep Know
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Free Hate Night Nothing Notion Play Sacred Writing
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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Book Country End Immediately Poet Remarkable War World Wrote

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