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“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”
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“We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.”
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“Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.”
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“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”
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“I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.”
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“Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.”
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“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”
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“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”
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“If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.”
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“A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.”
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“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”
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“I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.”
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“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.”
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“Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.”
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“Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.”
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“If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.”
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“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”
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“The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.”
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“Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
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“We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future”
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“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
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“This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.”
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“Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.”
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“Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision, only when we are the wind together streaming and singing, only in the dream we become with our bones for spears, we are real at last and wake.”
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“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
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“In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,”
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“i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”
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“There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.”
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“Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.”
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