I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
ADRIENNE RICH
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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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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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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