Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
ADRIENNE RICHLying is done with words and also with silence.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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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 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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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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