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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

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A language is a map of our failures

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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

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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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Any woman's death diminishes me.

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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.

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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

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