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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine

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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

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As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

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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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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

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Strangers are an endangered species.

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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

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

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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

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"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

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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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