Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
ADRIENNE RICHMarriage is lonelier than solitude.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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