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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Adrienne Rich

Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
ADRIENNE RICH

Community Intelligence Intimacy Motherhood Power Thinking Transformed
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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Authority Disequilibrium Mirror Moment Psychic Teacher World
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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Again Delta Direction Flow Grasp One River Springing Story Thinking
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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Around Block Building Collapse Landscape Memories Notebook Prayer
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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Hard Learning Mean Refusing Responsibility Strong Thinking Women Work
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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Children Enter Freedom Man Mother Room Think Travel Wife Work
Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Great Passion Poetry Survival Theme Women
All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Chaos First Learning Look New
To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Darkness Found Light Rejecting Treasure
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Bad Ass Believe Children Endangered Feminist Physically Society
Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Country Danger Present Tense
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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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Aquifer Collective History Rupture Secret Spiritual Voice
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Change Invitation Live Threat
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable

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