I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
ADRIENNE RICHThe marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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