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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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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Dream Know Like Poem Put
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Feeling Inspirational Pride Tricky
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Androgyne Child Children Dead Describe Infinite Language Living Lost Mind Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Breath Heart Short Simple Take

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