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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.

Adrienne Rich

I feel more helpless with you than without you.
ADRIENNE RICH

Feel Helpless More Without You
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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Gay Lesbian Men People Possibilities Solidarity Suffer Thinking
Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Changing Language Mean Reality Writing
A language is a map of our failures.
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Failure Language Map
Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
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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Art Connected Isolation Literature Loneliness People Sex
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Act Back Chapter Critical Cultural Direction Entering Eye Eyes Fresh History Looking More Self Survival Test Woman
No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Common Dream Language Room Sleep
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Failure Imagination Political Scientific War
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
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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Biography Censored Collection Image Letter Lying Memories Omitted Undepiched Unnamed
Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Believe Description Language Old Transform
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Attempt Liar Lying Ought Simpler Usually
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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Aak Claim Goes Myself On Touch Vision
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Cutting Enough Flesh Open Ripped Scar
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
ADRIENNE RICH

Connectedness Creativity Human Love Sense Sexually

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