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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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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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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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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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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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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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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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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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