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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.

Adrienne Rich

The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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Batter Callousness Child Children Exploitation Force Mother Poverty Sickness War
Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Choices Chosen Decision Real Require Revolution Woman
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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Believe Country Educated Education Educational Funded People Public School Society Some Speaking
Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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Country Poets have Unravelling Violent Wonderful
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Desire Dream Invent Lose Success Use
TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Collectively Created False Kind Television
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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Believe Choice Help Keep Language Life Move Paralysed Respect
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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Condition Education Health Less More Poetry Shelter Thinking Working
“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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Commodity Culture Image Imposing Interest Marketing
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Beauty Darkness Let See
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Cease More Something Speak Truth Unconscious Want
Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Art Community Creative Energy Enormous Hunger Solitude Women Work
The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Body Erected Patriarchy Terrain Woman
To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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Dream Effort Essential Experiment Living New Room Seek Serious Try Vision
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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Art Connected Isolation Literature Loneliness People Sex

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.

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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.

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