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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.

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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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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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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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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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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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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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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 liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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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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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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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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