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Nicole Brossard
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“... women's reality has been perceived as fiction. Let us name some of those realities here: maternity, rape, prostitution, chronic fatigue, verbal, physical, and mental violence. Newspapers present these as stories, not fact.”
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“Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.”
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“... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.”
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“The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.”
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“Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ...”
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“The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.”
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“A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.”
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“A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.”
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“To write, you must first belong to yourself.”
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“Language is magic — it makes things appear and disappear.”
Nicole Brossard, Canadian writer, poet
(1943)