Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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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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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for 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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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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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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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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