Life on the planet is born of woman.
ADRIENNE RICHLesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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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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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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