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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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Assumption Drenched Identity Knowledge More Ourselves Refusal Search Women
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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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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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Each Explore Other Society Stake Stories Want
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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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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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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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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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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Only where there is language is there world.
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Language Only World
Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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Enough Language Longer Personal
It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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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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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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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Adequate Art Dysfunction Hope Language Occasion Particular Search Stand
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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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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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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