The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
ADRIENNE RICHWe move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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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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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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