Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
ADRIENNE RICHIn the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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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.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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