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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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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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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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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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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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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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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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