Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
ADRIENNE RICHhe ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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