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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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