I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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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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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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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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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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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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