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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.

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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Arctic Deaadnededness Dead Doors Key Leftism Male Politics Revolution Tolerance Word
And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Absolute Country Failure Imagination People Political Scientific War
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Choose Intelligence Love Splitting Time
The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
ADRIENNE RICH

Able Anger Except Inward Nail Rusted Touch Women
I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
ADRIENNE RICH

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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Courage Defined Fall Fought Recovery Rose
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard Important People Way
To do something very common, in my own way.
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Common My Own Something Way
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Alone Enough Meadow Midnight Planet Rotating Sleep Sleeping Touch Turning

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