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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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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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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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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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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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