When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
ADRIENNE RICHWhat kind of beast would turn its life into words?
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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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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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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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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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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