We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
ADRIENNE RICHYoung people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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