Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
ADRIENNE RICHI’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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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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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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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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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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