In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
ADRIENNE RICHReality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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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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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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