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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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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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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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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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