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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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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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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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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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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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