Adrienne Rich

Chanakya Neeti - Eleventh Chapter , English Proverb , Manning Barish , Arabic Proverb , Chanakya Neeti - Third Chapter

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Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

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though , created , up , out , both
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

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woman , tells , truth
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

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must , use , invent
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Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

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until , understand , assumptions , which , cannot
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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...?

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death
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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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society
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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.

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war
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The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

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most , notable , fact , culture , women
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The moment of change is the only poem.

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poetry
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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passion , singling , obscurity , another , tale
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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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women
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

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

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poetry
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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lying , done , words , also
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Life on the planet is born of woman.

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life , planet , born