Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
ADRIENNE RICHYoung people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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