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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.

Adrienne Rich

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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Correspond Men's Monsters Moon Ocean Pull Respond Women
The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Door Limit Male Politics Return Revolution Same Tolerance
In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Bringing Console Create Sustain Vision Woman
What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Another Body Live Ourselves Sense Skin Surpass
You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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Art Everything Poet Poetic Reading Thinking Writing
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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Emerged Feminist Historical Justice Lived Past Present Received Tended Thinking Work
Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger
Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Literature Oppressor Poetry Reality
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Connectedness Creativity Human Love Sense Sexually
All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Chaos First Learning Look New
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
What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Believe Government Represent Same Thing
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Body Children Genius Imagine Motherhood New Relationship Woman World
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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Attempt Correspond Dangerously Daughter Mother Personalities Personality
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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Been Compared Elder Generation Teach Worship

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