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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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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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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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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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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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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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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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