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"We must not speak of women writers in our century (as we cannot speak of women in any area of recognized human achievement) without speaking also of the invisible, the innately capable: the born to the wrong circumstances-diminished, excluded, foundered, silenced. "
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"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important
to me must be spoken,
made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
--Audre Lorde
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"For a decade I burned every story and journal entry I wrote, lighting fireplaces with poems and building bonfires with fragments of novels. Only when I discovered the women's movement did I begin to write stories again in earnest, and then only with the help and encouragement of other women."
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