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There's something contagious about demanding freedom...
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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.
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Being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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Mother, in ways neither of us can ever understand,
I have come home.
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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange as hell.
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Life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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Contemporary feminism is here to stay.... We ain't goin' backward, crazy, under, or away.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
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Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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As we've frequently had to remind politicians, women were not born Democrats, Republicans, or yesterday.
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In the United States... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.
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When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.
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'Raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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Guilt politics... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.
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The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
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An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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January 29, 1941
(age 83)
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