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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate…
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that…
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,…
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous…
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard,…
— Adrienne Rich
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
— William S. Burroughs
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political)…
— Jonathan Rauch
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Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so…
— Unknown Author
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Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity
— Jenny Holzer
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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried…
— Anna Quindlen
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Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as…
— Nancy Milford
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A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
— Robert K. Merton
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