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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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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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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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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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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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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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To do something very common, in my own way.
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