I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
ADRIENNE RICHNo woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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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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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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