Strangers are an endangered species.
ADRIENNE RICHThat 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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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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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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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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