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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Adrienne Rich
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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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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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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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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
Adrienne Rich
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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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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
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