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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 woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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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 more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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 world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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