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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.

Adrienne Rich

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
The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Choice Examination Multiple Number Pencil Sheet
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Life Live Poet Poetry Remember Taught
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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Book Country End Immediately Poet Remarkable War World Wrote
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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Dried Drop Dust Grief Heart Lip Refused River Wear
I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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Call Jewels Love Sex Tale Year
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Body Control Man Nothing Revolutionary Women
There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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Artist Boundaries Bursting Channel Choiceless Creative Enormous Hunger Merely System Working
We have lived with violence far too long.
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Lived Long Violence
No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Common Dream Language Room Sleep
This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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Errant One Orphaned Own Seem Sporadic Thinking Tradition Way Women Work
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Change Invitation Live Threat
No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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Exercise Goes History Learning Music Natural Simple Study Told
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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Correspond Men's Monsters Moon Ocean Pull Respond Women
The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Centuries Country Marriage Revolution Witch Worker
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Conscious Cutting Interval Light Profane Revelation Self Stopped Time

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