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227 Feminist Quotes

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power Above Universe Relationship
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Back Coming Head Keep
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Truth Avoid Honesty Art
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Silence Also Done Lying
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The moment of change is the only poem.

Change Moment Only Poem
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Planet Force Among Feared
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Belongs Death Famine Life
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Mental Bonds Homes Strike
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

False Past Real Events
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Alive Time Painful Also
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Tale Passion Tell Mind
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Life on the planet is born of woman.

Born Life Planet Woman
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

News Truth False New
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Truth Creating More Around
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Society Human Change Bring
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Access Direct Life Taboo
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Cycles Process Vision Remains
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Burn Live Living Desire
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Survival Passion Battle Child
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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty
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Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

Citizens Activism Public Laws
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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The young intellectuals are all chanting,

Youn Intellectuals Chanting Revolution
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Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

World Million Men Women
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Bad Experience Good Good Judgment
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Better Deadline Inspiration Negative
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The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Anybody Love Only People
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Logical Men Place Ride
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

American Best Every Form
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art Entertainment Married Moral
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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Car Cliff Drives Like
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Bad Happiness Keys Memory
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Action Either Every Strong
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Action Fight Intellectually Life
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Authority Believe Disrespect Forms
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Balls Embarrassing Find Meeting
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Morals are private. Decency is public.

Decency Morals Private Public
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Bargain Believe Dollars I Believe
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Entertainment Moral Passion Propaganda
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Because Between Define Lesbian
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Creativity Hope Instincts More
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Alive Enjoy Figured Finally
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Androgynous Bisexual Further Go
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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Because Bet End Enough
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Humor comes from self-confidence.

Humor Self-Confidence
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can

Age Believe Fast Function
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Find I Can Lead Me
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Writers will happen in the best of families

Best Families Happen Will
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience

Due Impatience Intuition Logic
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Any Decision Even Follows
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