The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
ADRIENNE RICHIt is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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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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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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