I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
ADRIENNE RICHIt will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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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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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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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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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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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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