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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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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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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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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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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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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 define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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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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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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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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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Cease More Something Speak Truth Unconscious Want

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