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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

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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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Experience is always larger than language.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

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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 woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. 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: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.

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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.

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