It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
ADRIENNE RICHThe marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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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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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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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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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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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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