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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’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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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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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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