If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
ADRIENNE RICHThe liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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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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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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