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

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The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

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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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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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Any woman's death diminishes me.

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I feel more helpless with you than without you.

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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.

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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

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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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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

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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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