It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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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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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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