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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Death Depth Female Menses Monster Moon Ocean Ride Sailor Themselves Tide
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Choices Chosen Decision Real Require Revolution Woman
The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
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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Exist Fear Feminism Infantilism Longing Male Mother Much Purely Remain Son
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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Create Every Joined Keep Knowledge Long Passive Pipe Plumbing Script Something Used Writing
A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Choose Even Life One Tool Wrong
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Each Explore Other Society Stake Stories Want
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Bear Destruction Longer Scar Witness
It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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Changeable Daily Earth Eternal Indestructible Life Live Spawn Swallow Threating Unstable
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Becoming Border Correct Dream Escaping Political Politically Showed Sign
… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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Assumption Drenched Identity Knowledge More Ourselves Refusal Search Women
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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Body Complexity Desire Dream Fecundity Struggle Struggling Truth Unconcious
To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Darkness Found Light Rejecting Treasure

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