It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
ADRIENNE RICHA life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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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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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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