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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.

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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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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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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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Among Counted Down Must None Perhaps Sit Weep
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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