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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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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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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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