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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
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"We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!"
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"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive."
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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
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"It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have."
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"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."
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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
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"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems
"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
Woman
"Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that."
Time
"Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically."
Writing
"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
Pleasure
"I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself."
Literature
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
Community
"We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies."
Writing
"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated."
Literature
"Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English."
Challenge
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