The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
ADRIENNE RICHLying is done with words and also with silence.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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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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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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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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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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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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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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