The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
ADRIENNE RICHWe might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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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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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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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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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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