Lying is done with words and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICHWhat we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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