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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.

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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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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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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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