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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.

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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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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
I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Feel Helpless More Without You
Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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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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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger

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