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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,…
• I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement…
• Life on the planet is born of woman.
• Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
• We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
• The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
• A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
• It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
• We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
• If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
• Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
• I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have…

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