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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Experience is always larger than language.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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