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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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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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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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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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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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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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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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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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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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