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“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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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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I just speak the truth. I keep it real.

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He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

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Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

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If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

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I hate watching myself speak German, it's painful!

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