Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
ADRIENNE RICH
Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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