Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
ADRIENNE RICHA decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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