There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
ADRIENNE RICHIt is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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