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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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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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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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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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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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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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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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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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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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