Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
ADRIENNE RICH
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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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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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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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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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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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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