I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
ADRIENNE RICHLife on the planet is born of woman.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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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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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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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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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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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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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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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.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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