I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
ADRIENNE RICHTo do something very common, in my own way.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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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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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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