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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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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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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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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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