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“It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple”

Adrienne Rich

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body…

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

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“Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her…

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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…

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Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed…

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... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

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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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The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I…

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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…

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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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O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

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Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

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Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.

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Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of…

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