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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 (1986)
I guess what I'm searching for always is a way of staying linked to the past, pulling out of it whatever you can use, and continuing to move on.
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. (from "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying")
Arts of the Possible (2000)
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and plainful. ("When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Re-Vision")
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (1979)
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
Feminism has always been shaped and fired by the question How can things be other than they are? What if...? (p190 "The Soul of a Woman's College")
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 (1986)
Patriarchy is no more an abstraction than imperialism is, once you have tasted it in your mouth, felt it across your flesh. ("North American Tunnel Vision" 1983)
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 (1986)