We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
ADRIENNE RICHThe so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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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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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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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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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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