Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
ADRIENNE RICHThese scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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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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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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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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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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