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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

Adrienne Rich

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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Again Delta Direction Flow Grasp One River Springing Story Thinking
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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Breaking Comprise Compulsory Existence Heterosexuality Lesbian Life Male Rejection Taboo
We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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Chosen Enter Envying Freedom Herself Identifies Imagine Room Think
Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Lonelier Marriage Solitude
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Choose Intelligence Love Splitting Time
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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Gay Lesbian Men People Possibilities Solidarity Suffer Thinking
Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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Feeling Guileless Intolerance Myself Selfishness Sometimes
What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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Amid Country Dysfunction Finding Increasing Society
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Artist Dishonoured Honor Legal People President
I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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Along Creativity Darkness Entered Experience Given Happiness Life Poetry Repeatedly Use
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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Air Animal Blazing Budding City Dappled Exuberantly Imagined Passion Scar Sulfuric Sycamores Tree
How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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Feminism Intelligent Lying Movement Render Thinking Trying
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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Children Enter Freedom Man Mother Room Think Travel Wife Work
What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
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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Breath Heart Short Simple Take

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