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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

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We have lived with violence far too long.

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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

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Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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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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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

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There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

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