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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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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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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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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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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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