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

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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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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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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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