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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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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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