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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.

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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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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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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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