Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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.
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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.
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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.
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