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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

Adrienne Rich

All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Chaos First Learning Look New
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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Children Experience Exquisite Feeling Most Suffering
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Delicate Honorable Human Love People Process Relationship Self Truth Two Violent
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Free Hate Night Nothing Notion Play Sacred Writing
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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Child Children Female Identity Intense Motherhood Process Reciprocal
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Alone Enough Meadow Midnight Planet Rotating Sleep Sleeping Touch Turning
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Able Anger Except Inward Nail Rusted Touch Women
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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Art Blazed Detachment Glorify Love Spraypaint Torture Typed Wall Year
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Connection Feminist Force Inspirational Motivational Planet Problem Transforming Women
The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Apparated Asking Crucial Movement Political Voice Women
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Attempt Liar Lying Ought Simpler Usually
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Ourselves Until
For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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Capacity Forbidden Mean Remind Something Trying Way Woman
Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Literature Oppressor Poetry Reality
In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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Compared Country Need Personal Poetry Retrenchment Support Thinking

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