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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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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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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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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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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Another Body Live Ourselves Sense Skin Surpass

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