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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.

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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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