Strangers are an endangered species.
ADRIENNE RICHLanguage is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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 don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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