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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.

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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Collective Consciousness Need Solution Support Value Withdrawal
What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Day Historical History New News Truth
There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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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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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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A language is a map of our failures.
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Failure Language Map
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Monster Sleep Think Thinking Woman
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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