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Quotes from Preface to Irene: Selected Writings of Irene Paull — Meridel Le Sueur

1900–1996 United States

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The great energies, languages and nourishment of women are seized, hidden and violated by indifference and outright conspiracy in order to maintain the silence of women. It is a loss when the voices of women are muffled, lost or deliberately silenced.

Preface to Irene: Selected Writings of Irene Paull (1996)

The independent strong woman was a bad woman, even in the radical press. Irene and I had a vision of the free new woman growing in her own pattern-a new crop, new protein, new communication, new connections, new conceptions-birthing out of terrible hunger and anger.

Preface to Irene: Selected Writings of Irene Paull (1996)

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