What is the exact source of this quote from Starhawk:?Community.  
Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without
having the words catch in our throats. . .   A circle of hands?open to
receive us?  Community means strength that joins our strength to do
the work that needs to be done.   Arms to hold us when we falter.  A
circle of healing.   A circle of friends.   Someplace where we can be
free.??

Hello.

The source of the quotation is Starhawk's book "Dreaming the Dark:
Magic, Sex, & Politics " (Boston: Beacon Press, 1982), page 92.


The quotation appears (with citation to "Dreaming the Dark") in:
"Building Communities of Scholars"
http://ans-info.net/Building%20Communities%20of%20Scholars%20with%20slides.pdf
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If you wish to buy Starhawk's book "Dreaming the Dark," it's available
from Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807010375/
 
Bibliographic data from "Dreaming the Dark" from the Library of Congress:
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+81070485&CNT=10+records+per+page

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search strategy:
"strength that joins our strength", starhawk
"dream the dark," 1982, "strength that joins our strength", starhawk

I hope this helps.