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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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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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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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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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