We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
ADRIENNE RICHThe woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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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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