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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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Cost Forcibly Heterosexuality Imposed Poverty Subliminally Woman
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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Believe Description Language Old Transform
If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Accept Assert Assimilated Definition History Male Past Philosophy Universe Wind Women
Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
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
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Androgyne Child Children Dead Describe Infinite Language Living Lost Mind Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Feel Helpless More Without You
Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Brotherhood Interest Least Loyal Men Own Self Since View World
That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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Dehumanized Gew Itself Know Obsessional Otherness Passion Primarily Quality Race Silence Topic White
Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Birth Child Children Grow Up Waiting
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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Choose Even Life One Tool Wrong
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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Art Craft Each Everyone Mean Poetry Something World Writing
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Artist Dishonoured Honor Legal People President
The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Another Mind Obscurity Passion Singling Tale
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Breath Heart Short Simple Take
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Country Own Patriotism Soul Wrestles

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