"When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female."
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"When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides of Christ. Christ is the bridegroom. In these symbolic actions, rather than in physical actions, where a male reaches sexuality or participates in intimate exchanges, if one uses a different term - there's often a heterosexual figuring that takes place. The male poet invokes a beautiful female muse. The virginal nun consecrated invokes the male bridegroom, Christ."
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"I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure."
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"There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female."
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"The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme."
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"And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours."
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"Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul."
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"Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it."
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"Relationship movies are often made for a female audience."
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"Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent."
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"I sent a girl a picture of my d - k. I don't know what it is with females. But I'm not too good with that s - t."
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"She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune."
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"I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible."
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"Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think."
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"People love pitting strong females against each other."
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"The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female."
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"I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954."
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"I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy."
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"The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences."
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"I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century."
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