Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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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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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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