The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.Adrienne Rich
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Open Air Museum. Seen from a train, stopped As by design, to bring us Face to face with the flag of our true country Violet-yellow, black-violet, Its heart sucked by slow fire O my America This then your desire
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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