Life on the planet is born of woman.
ADRIENNE RICHSexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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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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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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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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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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