Any woman’s death diminishes me.
ADRIENNE RICHLying is done with words and also with silence.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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